[Phpmyadmin-devel] changelog strcutre

[Sebastian Mendel]

Marc Delisle schrieb:
> 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 :) ).

i could do - but i would wait for other comments


>> 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.

yes, thats why i wrote we should mark such backports

2006-07-12
   User - User
     * SECURITY: #123458 - blah blah [QA_2_10, QA_2_9]


>>>> 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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