[Qemu-devel] git rm Changelog?

[Qemu-devel] git rm Changelog?

[Paolo Bonzini]

... or at least "git mv Changelog Changelog.old"?

It only goes back to 0.12.0 so that there is hardly a place in the git 
repo to look for new features in 0.13 and 0.14.

Paolo

Re: [Qemu-devel] git rm Changelog?

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 25.01.2011 00:06, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
> ... or at least "git mv Changelog Changelog.old"?
> 
> It only goes back to 0.12.0 so that there is hardly a place in the git 
> repo to look for new features in 0.13 and 0.14.

Or maybe update it?

I find it rather unfriendly to our users to say "Here is a new release.
In the unlikely case that you really want to know what has changed,
please bother yourself to filter the interesting stuff out of these
thousand git commits".

Kevin

[Qemu-devel] Re: git rm Changelog?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/25/2011 10:57 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 25.01.2011 00:06, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>> ... or at least "git mv Changelog Changelog.old"?
>>
>> It only goes back to 0.12.0 so that there is hardly a place in the git
>> repo to look for new features in 0.13 and 0.14.
>
> Or maybe update it?
>
> I find it rather unfriendly to our users to say "Here is a new release.
> In the unlikely case that you really want to know what has changed,
> please bother yourself to filter the interesting stuff out of these
> thousand git commits".

Who can help writing up some 0.13 and 0.14 changes for non-KVM stuff?

Paolo

Re: [Qemu-devel] git rm Changelog?

[Anthony Liguori]

On 01/25/2011 03:57 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 25.01.2011 00:06, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>    
>> ... or at least "git mv Changelog Changelog.old"?
>>
>> It only goes back to 0.12.0 so that there is hardly a place in the git
>> repo to look for new features in 0.13 and 0.14.
>>      
> Or maybe update it?
>
> I find it rather unfriendly to our users to say "Here is a new release.
> In the unlikely case that you really want to know what has changed,
> please bother yourself to filter the interesting stuff out of these
> thousand git commits".
>    

Logistically, I prefer doing highlights in a mail verses having a 
committed file.  A Changelog file needs to be committed prior to tagging 
a release and cannot be enhanced after the fact.  The nice bit about an 
email is that folks can respond to it with additional details.

A wiki page (similar to what kernel newbies does) would be nice to 
supplement what's included in the release notes.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Kevin
>
>    

Re: [Qemu-devel] git rm Changelog?

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 25.01.2011 15:35, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 01/25/2011 03:57 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> Am 25.01.2011 00:06, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>>    
>>> ... or at least "git mv Changelog Changelog.old"?
>>>
>>> It only goes back to 0.12.0 so that there is hardly a place in the git
>>> repo to look for new features in 0.13 and 0.14.
>>>      
>> Or maybe update it?
>>
>> I find it rather unfriendly to our users to say "Here is a new release.
>> In the unlikely case that you really want to know what has changed,
>> please bother yourself to filter the interesting stuff out of these
>> thousand git commits".
>>    
> 
> Logistically, I prefer doing highlights in a mail verses having a 
> committed file.  A Changelog file needs to be committed prior to tagging 
> a release and cannot be enhanced after the fact.  The nice bit about an 
> email is that folks can respond to it with additional details.
> 
> A wiki page (similar to what kernel newbies does) would be nice to 
> supplement what's included in the release notes.

We do have a wiki page "ChangeLog" and there are more than enough links
to it, it just hasn't been updated since 0.12.5.

I don't really care too much in which way we do it. But for 0.13 we
don't have any kind of a high-level changelog on qemu.org or in the
release tarball, and I think we should.

Kevin

Re: [Qemu-devel] git rm Changelog?

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 01/25/2011 03:49 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> We do have a wiki page "ChangeLog" and there are more than enough links
> to it, it just hasn't been updated since 0.12.5.

Yes, that was my rationale for removing it from the tree.

Paolo

Re: [Qemu-devel] git rm Changelog?

[Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>
> A wiki page (similar to what kernel newbies does) would be nice to
> supplement what's included in the release notes.
>

There you go: http://wiki.qemu.org/Changelog/0.14

This is a first draft and I will try to keep up, let's see what happens.

Regards,

Miguel

Re: [Qemu-devel] git rm Changelog?

[Anthony Liguori]

On 01/25/2011 06:52 PM, Miguel Di Ciurcio Filho wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
>    
>> A wiki page (similar to what kernel newbies does) would be nice to
>> supplement what's included in the release notes.
>>
>>      
> There you go: http://wiki.qemu.org/Changelog/0.14
>
> This is a first draft and I will try to keep up, let's see what happens.
>    

Cool!  Thanks!  I'll make sure to reference it in the release announcement.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
>
> Miguel
>
>