Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2001 20:00:39 +0100 (CET) From: Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, David Xu <davidx@viasoft.com.cn>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Release notes (was Re: retiring kernfs) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10101041958460.88090-100000@login-1.eunet.no> In-Reply-To: <200012272151.eBRLpIc51777@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
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> too much detail for our release notes. Basically, the problem is that > the audience for our commit messages and the audience for "release > notes" (as I perceive them anyways) are different. > > I've been doing a lot of the items for RELNOTES.TXT lately; it's > sometimes hard figuring out what impact a given commit message is going > to have on my-conception-of-the-average-user. Some other committers > (I'm going to hold up gshapiro as a great example) do a wonderful job of > documenting their commits in the release notes, which helps immensely. Why not mandate a line of the form RELEASE NOTE: yyyymmdd[hhmm[ss]] account - note and then have an automated script gather these up regularly? Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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