Re: simple generation of the release news items (r18476 - htdocs/trunk/news - Fix unstable version warning)

2009-12-13 Thread Christian Stimming
Am Freitag, 11. Dezember 2009 schrieb Geert Janssens: > > BTW if you write a svn commit message and quote a bugzilla bug number, I > > recommend writing "bug #1234", i.e. with the hash sign in front of the > > number. Our trac website is set up to turn those numbers (those with > > hash) into hyper

Re: simple generation of the release news items (r18476 - htdocs/trunk/news - Fix unstable version warning)

2009-12-11 Thread Geert Janssens
On Friday 11 December 2009, Christian Stimming wrote: > Dear Geert, > > Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Geert Janssens: > > > We also have such a script - the makefile rules for the ChangeLog file > > > in the top-level directory do exactly this: It downloads the svn log > > > data from th

Re: simple generation of the release news items (r18476 - htdocs/trunk/news - Fix unstable version warning)

2009-12-11 Thread Christian Stimming
Dear Geert, Am Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 schrieb Geert Janssens: > > We also have such a script - the makefile rules for the ChangeLog file > > in the top-level directory do exactly this: It downloads the svn log > > data from the hard-coded revision and formats it into some text file > > by t

Re: r18476 - htdocs/trunk/news - Fix unstable version warning

2009-12-10 Thread Geert Janssens
On Thursday 10 December 2009, Christian Stimming wrote: > Zitat von Geert Janssens : > >> > > A new template would be great. Even better would be working out a > >> > > good process for updating the changed item section. For this, I > >> > > looked at the revision log from > >> > > http://svn.gnu

Re: r18476 - htdocs/trunk/news - Fix unstable version warning

2009-12-10 Thread Christian Stimming
Zitat von Geert Janssens : > > A new template would be great. Even better would be working out a good > > process for updating the changed item section. For this, I looked at > > the revision log from http://svn.gnucash.org/trac/log/gnucash/trunk, > > but it cuts off the comments. You can che

Re: r18476 - htdocs/trunk/news - Fix unstable version warning

2009-12-09 Thread Phil Longstaff
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 23:34 +0100, Geert Janssens wrote: > On Wednesday 9 December 2009, Phil Longstaff wrote: > > I didn't 'svn update' until after I'd copied 2.3.7 to 2.3.8 as a template, > > so I didn't know about the new stuff. It wasn't until I had first > > committed the 2.3.8 news item and

Re: r18476 - htdocs/trunk/news - Fix unstable version warning

2009-12-09 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 9 December 2009, Phil Longstaff wrote: > On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 23:34 +0100, Geert Janssens wrote: > > On Wednesday 9 December 2009, Phil Longstaff wrote: > > > I didn't 'svn update' until after I'd copied 2.3.7 to 2.3.8 as a > > > template, so I didn't know about the new stuff. It was

Re: r18476 - htdocs/trunk/news - Fix unstable version warning

2009-12-09 Thread Geert Janssens
On Wednesday 9 December 2009, Phil Longstaff wrote: > I didn't 'svn update' until after I'd copied 2.3.7 to 2.3.8 as a template, > so I didn't know about the new stuff. It wasn't until I had first > committed the 2.3.8 news item and then went to see how it looked on > gnucash.org that I noticed so

Re: r18476 - htdocs/trunk/news - Fix unstable version warning

2009-12-09 Thread Phil Longstaff
cuts off the comments. Phil From: Geert Janssens To: gnucash-devel@gnucash.org Sent: Wed, December 9, 2009 1:35:42 PM Subject: Re: r18476 - htdocs/trunk/news - Fix unstable version warning Phil, I see you have pushed a new news item. You already found there is now a warning block in it. I ha

Re: r18476 - htdocs/trunk/news - Fix unstable version warning

2009-12-09 Thread Geert Janssens
Also, when you update a release (stable or development), the new version number should be inserted in externals/global_params.php. This ensures that the front page and downloads page continue to list the latest versions. For an unstable release, only the downloads page is affected by this, for

Re: r18476 - htdocs/trunk/news - Fix unstable version warning

2009-12-09 Thread Geert Janssens
Phil, I see you have pushed a new news item. You already found there is now a warning block in it. I had made some additional changes to the news pages, like adding links to the proper download locations and some general tidying to the titles. I see now that I didn't communicate these changes p