On 08/28/2018 08:11 PM, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
> Thanks Tom for responding,
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tom Rini <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2018 7:28 AM
>> To: Prabhakar Kushwaha <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [U-Boot] u-boot release and feature set
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 06:48:13AM +0000, Prabhakar Kushwaha wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tom,
>>>
>>> Every u-boot release announcement has a very high level feature set.
>>> I am wondering, if you also maintain detailed feature list  per u-boot
>> release?
>>>
>>> I can see "Statistics" details per release from 
>>> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.denx.de%2Fwiki%2FU-&amp;data=02%7C01%7Cyork.sun%40nxp.com%7C9b263f9701134c98b63208d60d5d1d5e%7C686ea1d3bc2b4c6fa92cd99c5c301635%7C0%7C0%7C636711090913158275&amp;sdata=ZJZMJUnx1LUwWMrU5%2F3kbfDo8X0GK%2BfvIqJO%2BObB4aY%3D&amp;reserved=0
>> Boot/ReleaseCycle but not the feature set.
>>> May be I am looking at wrong place ☹
>>
>> It's been asked from time to time but I am simply bad about it.  I had tried
>> parsing the git logs every -rc to come up with something more detailed, but
>> that didn't last.  If more people did signed tags that would provide some
>> useful information for a detailed changelog.
>>
> Feature set is good thing to have per release. It help us in taking decision 
> of upreving u-boot (now or later). 
> 
> A suggestion, can we ask feature set details in every pull request from 
> sub-maintainers. 
> Or
> A blog can also be maintained, where sub-maintainer can write feature set per 
> pull request. 
> 
> Sub-maintainers have better idea what feature they are providing.  
> Feature set can also be published per sub-system (instead of pick and 
> choose).  

I think a short description in pull request can work. Parsing git log
doesn't have the weight on each commit. We don't need to know every
details of a platform fix, we care more on wider and bigger changes.

York
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