moving away from changelog.dd?

[Walter Bright]

On 12/25/2012 3:14 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 03:07:35 Walter Bright wrote:
>> 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.

I'd be in favor of a changelog auto-generated from bugzilla, and a human editted 
releasenotes.

Because, as Andrei pointed out, maintaining the changelog is currently tedious 
and error prone. I know that a number of pull requests have not made it into the 
current changelog, because the people who pull them do not go through the tedium 
of doing that, and they shouldn't have to.

Automation is the answer.