On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:38:41PM +0000, Jani Heikkinen wrote: > Lately it has been quite hard to get change files done for the releases. > oh, it's that time of the year again. :D
> 1) Let's enable [ChangeLog] -tag by default in commit template. After > that you must remove/comment out it by purpose if you don't want add > it. > i really don't think this will make a positive difference. the problem is that many people just don't have the right audience-oriented mindset. we *already* have lots of garbage changelog entries, and this will just worsen the S/N ratio. > And in addition to this update sanity bot so that it will give '-1' if > change log entry isn't given in release branch. > this is probably not sensible. most last-minute fixes relate to recently introduced problems, which means that they specifically *don't* need changelog entries. here's what i think would actually make a difference (based on historical evidence within trolltech): https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTQAINFRA-933 > 2) Let's agree every submodule in the release needs to have a change > file (to make things clear) > yes > 3) Let's agree the change log is the diff between new & previous > release in same series (in case of patch level release, meaning delta > from x.y.z -> x.y.z+1). And for new major release the diff is from > last patch release from previous series > that seems a no-brainer to me. the tricky question is what to do with LTS vs. stable, but we already resolved this: we duplicate the relevant log entries. _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
