[Phpmyadmin-devel] changelog strcutre

[Marc Delisle]

Sebastian Mendel a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> how about changing our changelog structure?
> 
> are you all happy with current structure?

I agree with your proposed changes. It's important also to credit people 
for patches, translations, etc. in the ChangeLog (and in 
Documentation.html for big credits).

Why the "create branch" messages?

> 
> 
> some suggestion:
> 
>   - date only once per day
>   - prefix type if change: bugfix, change, new
>   - add module info, f.e. sqlparser, config, themes, import, ...
> 
> release info in trunk changelog do says nothing - if we not also include 
> info in later chnages if it was backported to any other branch
> 
> do we really need to list all changed files? i think this comes from long 
> ago when no versioning system was used!?
> 
> 
> 
> f.e.:
> 
> 
> 2006-07-13
>    User - USer
>      - BUGFIX: #123456 - bug report title
>      - BUGFIX: some notices
>    User2 - USer2
>      + NEW: [themes] new feature in themes
>      / CHANGED: [gui] changed all layout table into fieldsets
> 
> 2006-07-12
>    User - User
>      * SECURITY: #123458 - blah blah [QA_2_10, QA_2_9]
> 
> 2006-07-11
>    User - User
>      > BRANCH: create branch QA_2_10
> 
>