moving away from changelog.dd?

[Kapps]

On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 04:19:44 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
> On Sunday, December 23, 2012 23:13:53 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 12/23/12 11:08 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> > It's just the WHATSNEW section that makes no sense to 
>> > automate.
>> 
>> Enhancement requests may fill most of the bill...
>
> They definitely don't fill all of it though. We need to be able 
> to put specific
> messages in the changelog separate from bugzilla entries.
>
> I really don't see why it's that big a deal that the WHATSNEW 
> section isn't
> automated though. It's the LIBBUGSFIXED section that causes all 
> the grief, and
> that's easily automated.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis


Personally I think it nicer that things like What's New would be 
written out by a human. Instead of just "Enhancement #4713: Add 
user-defined annotations", you can give a quick explanation of 
what actually was added and a link to get more info about it. 
Same for phobos modules and the like.