moving away from changelog.dd?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 03:07:35 Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/24/2012 9:03 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > How about the very example that I gave about specifically providing a note
> > to developers about the impending changes to std.format? No bug had been
> > fixed, and no enhancement request had been implemented. No code change
> > had even taken place yet. It was a note about a future change that
> > developers needed to be made aware of.
> 
> Well, a future change shouldn't be in a *change* log any more than it should
> be in bugzilla.
> 
> What you're talking about should be called "release notes".

If you want to be pedantic about it, sure. But we don't have release notes 
separate from the changelog at this point. And while some changes which aren't 
currently put in bugzilla _could_ be put there (e.g. the addition of a new 
module), that doesn't necessarily mean that they belong there. So, while 
automating the list of bug fixes makes good sense, having a section of the 
changelog or release notes or whatever which is written by humans also makes 
good sense.

- Jonathan M Davis