[phobos] Changelogs

[Walter Bright]

Some good points.

1. For the *user* of D, rather than the developer of D, I think he'd 
want to see the changelog in one place rather than clicking around to 
look at various changelogs.

2. I understand that a single changelog can be problematic for the 
developer of D. So it is possibly a reasonable solution to create a 
changelog per phobos, druntime, and dmd, and then merge them for the 
releases.

Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> I'll bring this up again, since it didn't really go anywhere the last time it 
> was brought up. We have two issues with changelogs.
>
> 1. Changes to dmd, druntime, and Phobos are always lumped together in the 
> changelog for a release. This may or may not be desirable. Some have expressed 
> interest in separating them out - either as three projects or as two projects 
> with druntime lumped in with either dmd or Phobos.
>
> 2. As it stands, we have one changelog file, and it's in the d-programming-
> language.org repository. Most of us don't have commit access to d-programming-
> language.org, so if we want to update the changelog, we need to create a pull 
> request, and it seems rather silly to create a pull request for something that 
> small (not to mention, that encourages updating the changelog only when a 
> release happens when we really should be updating it as we fix bugs). So, either, 
> we need to have a separate changelog file in each project which is combined as 
> one in some manner in d-programming-language.org when a release happens, or we 
> need all of the Phobos devs to have commit access to d-programming-language.org 
> so that they can update the changelog themselves.
>
> So, the first question is do we create changelog files in dmd, druntime, and 
> Phobos and then combine them into the one in d-programming-language.org when we 
> do a release, or do we make it so that all of the Phobos devs have commit access 
> to d-programming-language.org?
>
> And the second question is whether we want to split up the information in the 
> changelog by project in some manner? If we do, having a changelog file per 
> project makes a lot of sense, regardless of whether we want all of the Phobos 
> devs to have commit access to d-programming-language.org.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
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