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@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] 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