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From: Jim C. Nasby <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Postgres tracking - the pgtrack project
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 14:33:05 -0500
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C11F7E97.13196%[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 06:31:51PM +0100, Dave Page wrote:
> > BTW, another "output" thing you might consider is "having draft release
> > notes ready-to-go on demand".  Currently, Bruce prepares the release
> > notes on the basis of a very tedious scan of the CVS commit logs.
> > If this sort of stuff were being dropped into a tracker as it went
> > into the CVS tree, at least the research part of making the notes would
> > be zero-effort (or perhaps better to say that the work would be spread
> > out instead of concentrated).
> 
> We have the developers update the CHANGELOG file with each non-trivial
> change in pgAdmin. It works very well for us and producing release
> announcements etc. is a trivial task. The overhead on each developer is
> virtually zero as well as they have to compose some text for the commit
> message anyway.

Another possibility would be to annotate commit messages that should get
added to the release notes and have something automagically cull those
out of CVS.
-- 
Jim C. Nasby, Database Architect                   [email protected]
512.569.9461 (cell)                         http://jim.nasby.net

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