Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 20:58:10 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>, arch@freebsd.org, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, David Xu <davidx@viasoft.com.cn>, Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Release notes (was Re: retiring kernfs) Message-ID: <20010104205810.H22608@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <200101041943.f04JhYH10969@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>; from bmah@freebsd.org on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:43:34AM -0800 References: <XFMail.010104112911.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200101041943.f04JhYH10969@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 11:43:34AM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > Why not mandate a line of the form > > > RELEASE NOTE: yyyymmdd[hhmm[ss]] account - note > > > and then have an automated script gather these up regularly? > > To Marius: I presume you're referring to a mandatory line in commit > messages. The problem is that there's lots of commits that don't really > result in release note entries (i.e. fixing a typo in an error > message, or eliminating a compiler warning). I don't think automating release note entries would ever work. A carefully handcrafted relnote file is much better than one created automagically. > (Thanks, by the way, to anyone who's committed to the release notes > files, especially gshapiro and sanpei, who have been especially > consciencious about this.) That is exactly the point: consciencious one must be to produce good, readable and understandable information. Forcing people to write something up in a commit message *that is suitable for a relnote file* is impossible IMHO. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands wilko@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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