When can we stop writing ChangeLogs?

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Tue Sep 24 23:21:00 GMT 2019


My vote is next release, so we have time to update the release wiki page
and get used with process meanwhile.

On 20/09/2019 11:55, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> I've committed the ChangeLog auto-generation script[1] so we can stop
> writing ChangeLog entries any time now.  What's the preferred way to do
> this, stop right now, or stop after the February release?
> 
> Also, I think this is a great time to start a conversation on a patch
> review system with CI plugs, etc.  After a conversation with Gabriel at
> Cauldron I realized that the ChangeLog auto-generation is actually just
> the beginning and we could do a whole lot more with that set of scripts,
> on the lines of static analysis of the changes to weed out any obvious
> issues.  That could go in as one of the CI checks.
> 
> Siddhesh
> 
> [1]
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=f2144b7874b23be7c7eb184ec601633ec6fa8fac
> 



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