[Phpmyadmin-devel] changelog strcutre

Sebastian Mendel lists at sebastianmendel.de
Tue Feb 13 14:10:49 CET 2007


Marc Delisle schrieb:
> 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).

yes - of course, like we do it now, or?

just an appendix 'thanks to loveleyUser' in case of patches or other merged code

> 
> Why the "create branch" messages?

to see that all changes before this message are in this branch too


>> 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: created branch QA_2_10



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