Hash out a solution for ChangeLog/NEWS at the Cauldron?

[Martin Sebor]

On 08/04/2015 02:37 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Aug 2015, Martin Sebor wrote:
>
>>> What I'm thinking of is a policy that'll allow us to auto-generate
>>> ChangeLog and NEWS from commit data so that whatever is posted on the
>>> list can be git-am'd directly and merged into master without rewriting
>>> the commit.  This will allow for tighter integration with patchwork,
>>> to mark committed patches as closed automatically, leaving just
>>> superseded patches to clean up.
>>
>> Would using Bugzilla to keep track of which release each bug was
>> fixed in be a appealing solution? It would make it easier to find
>
> As long as it handles point releases (that is, can track that a bug was
> fixed in 2.22.1 and 2.23, so the generated NEWS entries for both those
> releases include that bug), it seems a reasonable approach.

The Target Milestone drop down box can only be used for a single
version. It's populated with minor release (and a few 2.2.x and
2.3.x ones). The Keywords free form text field has been used for
fixes backported to other releases so it should work for point
releases too.

Martin

PS Here's a link to a search for all bugs whose Target Milestone
is set to 2.22. It currently returns 40 out of the 192 bugs listed
in the NEWS file in 2.22.

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&list_id=21443&namedcmd=Fixed%20in%202.22&remaction=run&sharer_id=9153