On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 17:45, Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > With the changelog it becomes a little bit more tricky. > We currently have 3 changelogs in Fedora with 3 different target audience (this > is how I understand them): > - One for the files in the git repository, meant to be "consumed" by our > fellow packagers, not meant to leave the Fedora infrastructure > - One in the spec file describing the changes applied to it. This one is meant > to be accessible to sysadmins who want to know/check what changed in a package > - One in bodhi, meant for end-user consumption and which should give some > explanation as to why the package was updated or where information about the > update can be found > > So we need to, somehow, merge two changelogs into one while realizing that some > information in one may not be desirable in the other (for example the world > famous commit message: "oops I've forgot to upload the sources" does not need to > appear in the RPM's changelog). > Would it be easier to merge the git changelog with the spec changelog or the > spec changelog with the bodhi notes? > > For the former one easy way to achieve this is to consider all the commits since > the last successful build and have a magic keyword to either include or exclude > a commit message in the changelog. > For the latter, we discussed the idea of using annotated git tags this fall. Most of the time, I end up copying the spec changelog in the commit message and I don't change the update template, so the bodhi changelog is also the same. The spec changelog is a pain for me, so I'd vote for git commit messages + tags (unnanotated; otherwise, I don't see much benefit). -- Iñaki Úcar _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
