Re: [ros-dev] Improving our procedure

[Alex Ionescu]

I still don't see how writing such a webservice + figuring out how to use it is
simpler than just dumping your user log and copy/pasting the entries with a little bit of
formatting cleanup.

It never took me more than an hour, tops, for hundreds of commits in a given release!

I don't understand how a ReactOS developer, which (at least I fucking hope so)
probably spends 6 hours debugging an issue by looking at prints, stepping through code,
and finally discovering the race condition (the most BORING work ever) at least once a
week, can't afford doing one hour of boring work every 6 months?!
Just how lazy are you...

On 2009-12-15, at 12:24 PM, Ged Murphy wrote:

>   I definitely like this idea. It's much more
> workable than a blind script,
>  changelogs _need_ human interaction.
>  The problem is, who would write such a webservice and would people use it?
>  
>  Ged.
>  
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:[e-mail]] On
>  Behalf Of Timo Kreuzer
>  Sent: 15 December 2009 16:45
>  To: ReactOS Development List
>  Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Improving our procedure
>  
>  Thinking about the changelog problem, I had the following idea:
>  
>  On the website there would be a place maybe called "myDevelopment" or
>  something. Here you would automatically find a list of all your recent
>  commits. Seperated by release version. By default every new commit
>  creates a new entry here. But you can manage the entries.
>  - Edit the message and component of each entry
>  - Mark an entry as trivial. These changes don't get into the changelog
>  at all.
>  - Split an entry, if a single commit contains 2 changes. You can fix up
>  the messages afterwards.
>  - Merge 2 or more entries into one new.
>  On release the whole stuff will be gathered together.
>  
>  Additional features:
>  - Mark an entry as active workitem. Folling commits will automatically
>  go in there.
>  - Show recent activity on the frontpage.
>  - Add planned activities, private notes, TODOs, FIXMEs, status, bugzilla
>  links, etc
>  
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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu