On Sun, 2013-10-27 at 21:50 -0400, Monty Taylor wrote: > Hey all! > > We're adding a little bit of code to pbr to make the auto-generated > ChangeLog files a bit more useful. Currently, they are just the git > changelog, which is kinda useless. So we wrote this: > > https://review.openstack.org/#/c/52367/ > > which produces output like this: > > http://paste.openstack.org/show/49999 # on a tag > and > http://paste.openstack.org/show/50001 # not on a tag > > It underscores the need for commit subjects to communicate something, > which is a good thing. > > With that there, it makes changes like: > * Updated from global requirements > and > * Update my mailmap > > Kinda lame in the changelog. So we were thinking - what if we recognized > one or more subject tags to skip things going into the ChangeLog file. > My first thought was: > > NIT: # use this for tiny commits that are not really worth changelogging > > and > > AUTO: # use for commits generated by our machines, such as the global > requirements sync or the Translations sync. > > What do people think? Should we bother? Are those good? Would something > else be better? It's sort of an opt-in feature, so adding it SHOULDN'T > bork too many people.
So long as it isn't so SHOUTY it could work out nicely :) Getting these ChangeLogs published is goodness - the more the more people see their one-line message around the place, the more people they'll make an effort to write a decent one. Cheers, Mark. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
