[geeklog-devel] Updating the changelog

[Vincent Furia]

That's great Dirk! One less thing to remember to do.

-Vinny

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 14:38, Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com>wrote:

> Normally I don't edit the changelog in my patches. So, yeah, extracting
> the info from the bugtracker looks pretty appealing to me.
>
> Rouslan
>
> On Sun, 2011-05-15 at 22:08 +0200, Dirk Haun wrote:
> > > What we do at work is to generate the changelog from our bugtracker
> (JIRA - haven't checked what Mantis offers in terms of APIs).
> >
> > Mantis has a SOAP API. Fortunately, there are wsdl2php converters, so
> it's not too painful. I've managed to extract something that vaguely
> resembles our changelog entries, e.g.
> >
> > --- snip ---
> > - Staticpage Plugin Function plugin_getiteminfo_staticpages does not
> always return correct data (Bugs #1342) [Laugh]
> > - Calendar Week view date range may not display correctly (Bugs #1340)
> [Laugh]
> > - Font size of Calendar is so small. (Feature Requests #1329) [Laugh]
> > - "Mail users" lose all filled in values upon error (Patches #1270)
> [Roccivic]
> > - Speed up template class (Patches #1302) [Laugh]
> > - Oauth accounts get logged out after 2 minutes of inactivity (Bugs
> #1334) [Laugh]
> > --- snip ---
> >
> > So looks like this would be doable. We just need to take a little bit
> more care about the subject and don't be afraid to update or rewrite it. As
> I said before:
> >
> > > But even there we had to add a field "summary for the changelog" and
> have a person performing the task of an editor to ensure that what ends up
> in the changelog is presentable to our customers ...
> > >
> > > But if we were to automate extraction of the changelog from the
> bugtracker, it would we easy to do just that. I.e. run the process, check
> contents, edit description where necessary, re-run process.
> >
> > bye, Dirk
> >
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