moving away from changelog.dd?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/25/12 2:19 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 25, 2012 04:18:10 Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 12/25/2012 3:41 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> WHATSNEW is a list of new features, which are (or should be) in bugzilla as
>> enhancement requests.
>
> So, if we put a new module through the review process, we're going to go and
> create an ehancement request for it after the fact just so that it's in
> bugzilla and shows up in the automatically generated changelog? That seems off
> to me. Bugzilla is for reporting bugs or requesting that things be added to
> the language or library, not for reporting everything that we do. The SCM log
> is for that.

It's not all that far-fetched as bugzilla is also a place for 
enhancement requests. There's really no reason to fight about this. I 
think s/WHATSNEW/release notes/g pretty much draws an isomorphism 
between your argument and ours.


Andrei