bug#81116: 31.0.60; [FR] ELPA: Include changelog in the Atom feeds

Daniel Mendler <[email protected]> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>> I am not sure I see the problem you're trying to solve. When we know the
>>> version 1.2.3, we can simply scan all headlines for 1.2.3, take the
>>> first headline and we will be good?
>>
>> Then you have a subsection in underneath the section in 1.2.4 titled
>> "Bugfixes since 1.2.3" and we accidentally pick up on that instead.  It
>> is my experience that we are just inviting annoyances like this if we
>> start with the flexible approach, which undermines the intention of
>> providing the right changelog information for each release.
>
> This won't happen in the scheme I had in mind. When you scan for 1.2.3
> you must take the changelog from git corresponding to version 1.2.3, and
> there won't be a "since 1.2.3". However you have to check out the
> changelogs for all the versions you want to include in the feed, for
> instance the ten last versions, but this should be efficient enough.
> Another alternative would be to detect the indentation depth from the
> latest version and then only scan headings of the same depth for the
> older version numbers.

In any case, my argument is that this all sounds much more complicated
(from our side) than requiring the package author to use org-mode and
annotate the relevant section with a tag.  But I have now posted a
thread on emacs-devel, so I think the discussion should continue there,
and when we have a satisfactory/popular solution, we can return to the
problem of including changelogs in the Atom feeds.