I got the impression the changelog features in Slide are basicly sufficient for what *I* wanted to log. I only added date/author attributes as I consider them essential and a reference to the bugzilla that is generated out of the bugzilla bug id.

I resurrected changelog.xml which is located at src/doc/changelog.xml and *kindly ask all committers to update it every time they check in something* non-trivial. A short notice on a high level like the ones found in release notes should be just right. The XML is very easy and should be self-explanatory when you look at the other entries. An entry might look like:

      <add date="January 15, 2004" author="ozeigermann" bugzilla-id="4711">
        Added new build targets to install Slide into Tomcat 4 and 5
      </add>

Oliver

Oliver Zeigermann wrote:

> All this "What has been changed?" and "Where did these fixes go?" really
> is a general problem. I know all the information is in the CVS, but is
> sometimes hard to find and manage. I would propose to use some sort of
> logging where every non-minor change gets recorded. We use a small DTD
> and XSLT script that converts log entries done in XML into text/HTML
> output and also release notes. There are some other little features like
> references to the bugzilla for bug fixes. All the author of a fix/change
> would have to do is add a log to the XML file like in weblogs.
>
> I would like to see this type of logging of changes in Slide 2.0. I
> would also merge the rudimentary logging capabilities in Slide with this
> one...





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