D Changelog is messed up.

[Don Clugston]

On 04/03/12 22:09, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> On 04/03/2012 15:07, Chad J wrote:
>> The D changelog shows that version 2.059 was released on the 16 of
>> Feb. I doubt it. There
>> is a broken download link for v2.059. There are no
>> bugfixes/enhancements/etc.
>>
>> IIRC the top version is a placeholder for features/enhancements that
>> will be in the next
>> release. If that's the case, it should SAY so, and there should be no
>> download link for
>> the presently non-existent release.
>
> And moreover, there shouldn't be a release date unless release has
> actually been scheduled for that date.
>
> Why the placeholder anyway? If no changes for the version have yet been
> written, the section shouldn't be there. If the point is to be a preview
> of what we will see in the next release, it should be formatted as such,
> with a heading such as "Coming in Version 2.059" and each subheading
> left until there's actually something in it.
>
> I can't see that the point is to make it quicker to add entries and to
> update the page to reflect the fact of release when it happens. It only
> takes a second or two to delete <!-- --> once there is something to put
> in the section.

Actually this is a release process issue.
The problem is that those pages are visible at all. Nobody should see 
that, unless they pulled the docs from git.
That's not the docs for the current release, it's the docs for the next 
one. It's not just the changelog.