simplifying the changelog

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, July 09, 2012 01:08:45 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> Just found out that bugzilla has a possibility to query all issues fixed
> after a specific date:
> 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&chfieldto=Now&
> chfield=bug_status&query_format=advanced&chfieldfrom=2012-04-12&resolution=F
> IXED
> 
> This may allow us to simply link to such queries from the changelog,
> having the date range the interval between the previous release and the
> current release. That way there's no more need to write manually entries
> in the changelog.
> 
> One problem is that this makes it harder to fix unlisted bugs - people
> would need to add a bug entry if they want it to be listed. I think
> that's minor.
> 
> 
> Thoughts?

Only the bugs fixed section of the changelog could work that way. We'd still 
need to manually edit the WHATSNEW section. So, as long as the two can be 
combined, that should work.

Another concern would be that bugs which were actually fixed in a previous 
released but not closed then would end up under the wrong release, but I think 
that that also qualifies as minor.

And actually, if the bugs section linked in the bug fixes but still allowed you 
to manually add stuff, then you could still list unreported bugs if you wanted 
to. So, that problem may be quite fixable.

- Jonathan M Davis