Re: NEWS file rename

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote: > Hi! > >> I'd to agree on one thing tho'. NEWS should not be manually edited. >> With or without git, it is a (relatively small) pain. Back to the git >> migration time, David and I discussed about generating it from the >> commit messages. That implies to enforce a commit message format, a >> 1st attempt is described here: >> >> https://wiki.php.net/vcs/gitworkflow#new_commit_message_format. The >> RMs could then call a script to generate it on release. > > Commit messages themselves won't be very useful - a fix could include a > number of commits, and people regularly write commit messages not in > format suitable for NEWS. I'd rather prefer them to put it in NEWS file > - where they have an example of how it's done right, and where they can > put it in proper order, proper sections, etc. > It won't save much work because if people would neglect to do it with > NEWS file, they'd also neglect to put messages in commit in proper > format, Well, we could write a pre commit script and reject commits with invalid messages, hard but fair :) Cheers, -- Pierre @pierrejoye