2010/10/14 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 08:55:24PM +1100, Justin Clift wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Noticed an entry in a recent LWN.net article about PostgreSQL's >> conversion to git. >> >> One of the things mentioned sounds relevant to us : >> >> Â Robert Haas has documented how to get commit summaries and sizes from >> Â Git. He wrote a perl script (which Tom Lane improved) that allows you >> Â to produce a changelog suitable for release notes from Git. >> >> >> http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/tools/git_changelog;hb=HEAD >> >> >> The changelog mention might be useful for us, as the PostgreSQL >> changelog looks a bunch more useful than ours. >> >> Â The PostgreSQL ChangeLog: >> Â http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/release-9-0.html > > I don't believe that this corresponds to the output of the script > you show above. This page is a hand-written change summary. > That script above gives formatted commit logs. There's no enough > structured info in commit messages to be able to generate a page > like the one above. > >> Â Our ChangeLog: >> Â http://libvirt.org/news.html >> >> >> Mentioning this in case anyone has the time/inclination to look into >> it. ÂAny takers? :) > > I don't disagree that our news file is somewhat unreadable. We can't > automate this though - it needs manual work to create it. > We could split the huge comma seperated lists of items per <li> into a second level of <li>'s to avoid this large blocks of text. Matthias -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list