moving away from changelog.dd?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 03:20:26 Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

I think that that's what most of us are agreed upon at this point. What is 
currently the WHATSNEW section will continue to be done by hand, but the 
LIBBUGSFIXED section will be autogenerated.

- Jonathan M Davis