[Paraview-developers] [RFC] Changelog process?

[David E DeMarle]

I like it.


David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
Principal Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:

> Another advantage of the new style is there will always be a running
> change-log available. Thus, very easy for us to know what changed
> since the last release to put together slides etc. for status
> meetings.
>
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:16:17 -0400, Cory Quammen wrote:
> >> I like it, though as someone who puts together the release notes,
> >> usually it doesn't take too long to go through the git commit logs,
> >> clean up the description and make the language usage consistent. If we
> >> have a variety of snippets from different authors, I'll likely still
> >> have to do at least the language consistency editing. Also, folks may
> >> forget to add a snippet, reviewers will forget to require it if it is
> >> missing, so I'll likely go through the git commit log anyway to see
> >> what got missed...
> >
> > Well, there'd be a robot message saying "hey, did you forget something?"
> > at least.
> >
> > Another benefit is that these can be more easily reviewed for style and
> > consistency as well since Gitlab doesn't make it so easy to review
> > commit messages (though that is something I'd like to see from Gitlab in
> > the future anyways).
> >
> > --Ben
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