Re: Recognising Contributions

2021-08-18 Thread smi...@gmail.com
Hi All, Just coming back to this again (time flies), although we've got a while until 4.0 is released so no rush here. I've got a few different thoughts here: *Data* I had a look at the various tools discussed above to see if any give us what we need. While on that journey I came accross git'

Re: Recognising Contributions

2021-08-18 Thread Carlton Gibson
Hey David. Thanks for the follow-up here. I think at least for 4.0 we should focus on adding callouts/recognition to the release blog post, rather than the release notes. For one, release notes only contain new features, and we want to call out all the different contributions that don’t fal

Re: Recognising Contributions

2021-08-18 Thread chris.j...@gmail.com
Related to this discussion, what's the current policy / practice around linking to tickets from the release notes? It looks the release notes for patch releases already link to tickets, e.g. https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/3.2.6/ However, for feature release, it looks like the tic

Re: Recognising Contributions

2021-08-18 Thread Tim Graham
I started including ticket numbers in patch releases because there aren't too many changes there and every change has a release note. I think the ticket numbers are useful to quickly identify the cause of some change or regression in a patch release where upgrades should generally be safer and

Re: Recognising Contributions

2021-08-18 Thread chris.j...@gmail.com
Just to expand on my question a little bit with a comment, I think it would help to make the ticket corresponding to a release note easier to find because it would give people an easier way to answer the question, "what is the reasoning / background / discussion for this change?" Currently, ther