things that come out of builds (like log, reports, source control
data, etc) has always, and I suspect will always be a matter opinion
(string stringer than other). For example, over the years I tried many
(way too many) ways to present build data: flat text file, html, xml
+ xslt, flash/flex, etc... you name it. But, pleasing one group will
most certainly displease another ;) its a no win.
But now... ;) I care a lot less about pleasing and making happy
(which turns out, makes me happy ;) ). So now, I discovered web2py! :)
this is what I do:
Since I know, that group X is interested in THIS information, and that
group Y is more kan on THAT information, etc... I decided to hook
every build into web2py (or specifically DAL). Every build generates a
brand spanking new DB and I deliver the whole thing along side each
build. So each delivered build has
.../<build_version_folder>/dist/...
/reports/...
/storage/...
so now, they can get their own favorite SQLite software to view,
update, etc... anything they want in their own copy, or even present
the data to themselves in any way they want. This way, they all HAVE
to be happy (because now they own their happiness ;) )
Also, to be a nice guy, every build will export tables to CSV, then
they get imported into a "master" db, where they can get a sense of
history.
I extract LOTS AND LOTS and data with each build, and have spread data
across a few tables so folks can actually dig pretty deep. I would
have sent a few screen grabs, but I don;t know how to attach them
here :(
Web2py has certainly made my life a lot more peaceful wrt
changelogs :)
Mart :)
On Mar 17, 5:45 pm, Kevin Ivarsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> With today's new release I checked the changelog and noticed that the
> most recent entires are still at the bottom of the page.
>
> There was a thread a couple weeks ago where Nik Go submitted a
> reversed changelog, which I find more readable:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/96eb08eab6...
>
> Will this reverse order be incorporated? I've taken this reversed file
> and added today's release info here:
>
> http://www.physics.unc.edu/~kmi/web2py/README
>
> I also wanted to suggest recording the release dates in the changelog.
> It may be useful as a way for people to find out what's new since
> their copy of the web2py book or some tutorial video was released.
>
> On a related topic, I'm curious how web2py version numbers work. For a
> version a.bb.cc, does bb get incremented for new features and cc get
> incremented for only bugfixes?
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
