[Paraview-developers] [RFC] Changelog process?

[Cory Quammen]

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.

Ah, that would be helpful for avoiding that problem.

> 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).

Yep true. I like it.

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Cory Quammen
Staff R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.