Re: Adding NEWS entries to each active stable release branch (was: NEWS handling)
| From: | Johannes Schlüter | Date: | Wed, 16 Oct 2013 16:18:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Adding NEWS entries to each active stable release branch (was: NEWS handling) | ||
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On Wed, 2013-10-16 at 18:08 +0200, Nikita Popov wrote:
>
> I think it's pretty hard to get this information from the commit
> messages (not all commits are NEWSworthy, some changes have multiple
> commits). Maybe it's better to integrate this with bugs.php.net? After
> all NEWS only has changes with assigned bug IDs (minus rather rare
> exceptions), so that seems like a good place to do it. I.e. don't just
> "Closed" the bugs, but make them "Fixed in PHP 5.4.20, PHP 5.5.5" or
> something.
>
It's not completely rare - there are feature additions which aren't
traced in the bug tracker. We might make that a stronger requirement,
though. But mind that only the tree (currently) has the primary
knowledge about where it was merged in (also mind release branches) and
kicked out again.
johannes