On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 01:55:45PM +0200, Dan Pascu wrote:
> On Monday 01 December 2008, Oleg Broytmann wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 04:55:53PM +0200, Dan Pascu wrote:
> > > It would be nice to announce the intention of making a new release on
> > > the mailing list a few days before actually doing it. I had a pending
> > > bugfix on my TODO list and if I knew you were about to make a new
> > > release I would have found some time to commit it.
> >
> > No problem, I can release 0.10.4 with just one bugfix.
>
> Are you saying that you may release 0.10.4 now with only 1 bugfix, or that
> when it will be released a few months later it will be done even if it
> has 1 bugfix?
I can do any of this.
> > > There was also an important bug fix related to incorrect handling of
> > > unicode values with StringCol in mysql, but apparently it didn't make
> > > it to the news file. Maybe generating the news/changelog from the svn
> > > changelog could ease this process and make it more resilient.
> >
> > Did you update and commit docs/News.txt with the bugfix? News.html
> > is generated from News.txt.
>
> No I didn't. But that's my point. I already did input that information
> when I did the svn commit. Why add it twice when the news/changelog can
> be generated from the commitlog.
Because News.{txt,html} is a human-readable text, it should contain
shortened description of major changes, possibly in a different order. It
should not contain all minor commits, e.g. Hence it has to be
a human-writeable file.
There could be a separate machine-writeable changelog file.
Oleg.
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