2012/4/3 Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org:
Do we really need to be maintaining these release notes files this way, though?
Now that we have pre-commit review, we can more aggressively police commit messages so that the first line is more consistently "release-notes-ready", and we can generate release-notes files from commit logs instead, and avoid the make-work of manually adding to and merging RELEASE-NOTES files on every change.
Thoughts? Concerns? Threats? :)
+1, in general.
I was never sure what is worthy of putting in release notes. Sometimes people suggested me to put my changes there, so i did. At some point i started guessing myself.
It makes sense that only a small group of release management people will make significant changes to that file and i'll gladly adopt guidelines for commit messages that help them.
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