(Fwd) Preparing for 1.7 release

Dear httpunit developers,

Russell wrote:
>The final step in preparing for an HttpUnit release has 
always been  cleaning up the release notes. My practice 
>has been to update them  with each change, indicating 
>what (from a user's perspective) has  
>changed, and referencing any patches, bugs, or 
>enhancement requests  that are relevant. The cleanup 
>step, then, simply involved reordering  
>and reformatting the notes. The release notes at 
>present, however,  have a change log in them, which I 
>find confusing and not very helpful  
>at all. If you know or can figure out from the log what 
>has actually  changed in HttpUnit's behavior, can you 
>convert the change log to  release notes, in keeping 
>with previous releases?
There is now a korn shell script svnlog2releasenotes.ksh
which I checked into the trunk revision.

It extracts the information from the svnlog selects 
patterns of changes that should be ignored and looks for 
patch and bug report numbers as well as the revision.

The result is than output as a html code for a list that 
has links to the patches and svn revisions. I've renamed 
the release notes from txt to html, put the old stuff in 
<pre></pre> and added the new list.

If we combine our approaches we'll be able to have 
release notes as in the past  - please let me know how a 
proper svn comment should look like to fit to the 
release notes format your are expecting and I'll see to 
use such a format for all future svn commits. If some of 
the current entries still need fixing (e.g. if a link is 
broken since it points to a bug instead of a patch or 
vice versa) we may fix this step by step on the feedback 
from people stumbling over such a problem (or somebody 
could use the checking broken links problem as a good 
tutorial step for httpunit self)

Yours
  Wolfgang

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