On Sat, 2012-11-10 at 20:07 -0500, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
One idea I had was scanning the changes in
RELEASE-NOTES on a, say,
weekly basis and updating the current MediaWiki_X.xx page.
Another was asking code reviewers to somehow flag commits in Gerrit as a
signal for a volunteer (like me) to add it to the current MediaWiki_X.xx
page: "Hey! this really should get more attention."
But these are just my ideas right now. I'm open to suggestions for how
to improve the release process for MediaWiki.
Mozilla has a "relnotes" keyword in their Bugzilla so developers can
mark fixes worth to mention, but obviously not every commit/merge has a
corresponding ticket in the bugtracker (especially in case of
functionality enhancements).
I don't know about the acceptance by developers though (how many are
aware of it and how many actually use that keyword).
andre
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