[Phpmyadmin-devel] changelog strcutre

[Marc Delisle]

Sebastian Mendel a écrit :
> 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?

All entries for 2007 could be changed to the new format. I suggest that 
every committer changes his part (unless you are volunteer :) ).

> 
> 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

Hmmm, changes later than this "create branch" message can also be in 
this branch because we often backport.

> 
> 
>>> 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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