Re: [Development] Change file process & improvement proposal

2017-01-26 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 09:51:24AM +0100, Edward Welbourne wrote: > I don't know what you're saying, much less why it's supposed to be the > obvious interpretation. A "tagged commit" is presumably v5.7.0 or > similar; why should a commit without an amends line be assumed to > relate to one of thes

Re: [Development] Change file process & improvement proposal

2017-01-26 Thread Edward Welbourne
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:21:09AM +0100, Edward Welbourne wrote: >> However, you seem to be talking about *release* 5.x.0 rather than the >> *branch* of that name, so I'm not really clear on what you're talking >> about. 25 January 2017 12:13, Oswald Buddenhagen: > i don't know how you arrived at

Re: [Development] Change file process & improvement proposal

2017-01-25 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:21:09AM +0100, Edward Welbourne wrote: > However, you seem to be talking about *release* 5.x.0 rather than the > *branch* of that name, so I'm not really clear on what you're talking > about. > i don't know how you arrived at this conclusion, but it isn't relevant to my

Re: [Development] Change file process & improvement proposal

2017-01-25 Thread Shawn Rutledge
> On 25 Jan 2017, at 10:21, Edward Welbourne wrote: > > I have never heard of these amends lines; where are they > explained ? In any case, users may find a change interesting even if > there is no specific earlier commit that can be pinned down as what this > new change amends - sometimes, th

Re: [Development] Change file process & improvement proposal

2017-01-25 Thread Edward Welbourne
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 03:38:11PM +0100, Edward Welbourne wrote: >>> Proposal: Check for [ChangeLog] entries in a 5.x branch _after 5.x.0 >>> branched_. Is that easy to enable/disable? >> >> It should be easy to detect that 5.x.0 "has branched" - check for >> existence of either origin/5.x.0 branc

Re: [Development] Change file process & improvement proposal

2017-01-24 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 03:38:11PM +0100, Edward Welbourne wrote: > > Proposal: Check for [ChangeLog] entries in a 5.x branch _after 5.x.0 > > branched_. Is that easy to enable/disable? > > It should be easy to detect that 5.x.0 "has branched" - check for > existence of either origin/5.x.0 branch

Re: [Development] Change file process & improvement proposal

2017-01-24 Thread Edward Welbourne
> Proposal: Check for [ChangeLog] entries in a 5.x branch _after 5.x.0 > branched_. Is that easy to enable/disable? It should be easy to detect that 5.x.0 "has branched" - check for existence of either origin/5.x.0 branch or v5.x.0 tag. That we're committing to 5.x is fairly easy *in Gerrit* (wi

Re: [Development] Change file process & improvement proposal

2017-01-24 Thread Kai Koehne
@qt-project.org; releas...@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] Change file process & improvement proposal > [...] > > 1) Let's enable [ChangeLog] -tag by default in commit template. After > > that you must remove/comment out it by purpose if you don't want add >

Re: [Development] Change file process & improvement proposal

2016-11-11 Thread Edward Welbourne
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:38:41PM +, Jani Heikkinen wrote: >> Lately it has been quite hard to get change files done for the releases. and Ossi replied: > oh, it's that time of the year again. :D Speaking of which, it's also hard to get API reviews done, even though they are now much easier (

Re: [Development] Change file process & improvement proposal

2016-11-10 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:38:41PM +, Jani Heikkinen wrote: > Lately it has been quite hard to get change files done for the releases. > oh, it's that time of the year again. :D > 1) Let's enable [ChangeLog] -tag by default in commit template. After > that you must remove/comment out it by pur

[Development] Change file process & improvement proposal

2016-11-10 Thread Jani Heikkinen
Hi all, Lately it has been quite hard to get change files done for the releases. It should be maintainers responsibility to make sure those will be done for every release and those are containing proper data. We have tried to help maintainers by doing initial ones for them (running script to co