Re: changelog construction? (Re: 4.7 release notes progress: due tomorrow)

Hi Bernhard,

On Friday, September 09, 2011 09:43:54 Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> when seeing that I've missed the 4.7.1 release note construction
> and also seeing the remark in
> http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/17470/kde-sc-471-freigegeben.html
> that say that the changelog 
> http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog4_7_0to4_7_1.php
> is not really useful, 
> I believe we are missing an opportunity here.
> 
> Am Tuesday, 26. July 2011 10:34:35 schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
> > I've made a start on HTML-izing the text from
> > https://promo.notes.kde.org/14
> 
> Is there a described process how release notes and changelogs are being 
> constructed? Seeing this etherpad on quite short notice, what about
> starting wiki pages or other places that already collect interesting items?
> 

Tips that will help big time:
- Using FIXED-IN: Tags in commits, this will put the commit in question into 
the list of bugs from Bugzilla we reference in the announcement
- Update the changelog, which can be found here:
svn+ssh://svn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/www/sites/www/announcements/changelogs

The above is nothing the promo team can sensibly do, so we need developers to 
make our lives easier here.

I've grown a bit tired of reminding people to add their fixes and improvements 
there, mainly because I think it's just too much manual work. Using the commit 
tag should be easy enough though, and as you say, it's pretty important that 
we do show how much work we're putting into components that cause grief to our 
users.

> I was looking for a place like this or a description and I could not find
> it. E.g. I've put in an interesting change in
> http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE4/4.7_Feature_Plan#kdelibs
> which then did not make the changelog for 4.7.1, though
> I believe this would have been worth reporting by media.

The feature plan is only used for feature releases, so this info won't show up 
until 4.8 most likely (and then there's a good chance it won't make it into 
the release notes because of its too-fine granularity.)
Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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