Re: [Tails-dev] Do you read the changelog?

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Author: Muri Nicanor
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To: tails-dev
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Do you read the changelog?
Hi,

On 3/22/20 10:59 AM, intrigeri wrote:
[...]
> Zooming further into what we heard about (C), the changelog address
> these needs:
>
> C.1 Need more details than what the release notes include,
>     i.e. the "how" information

>
> C.2 Need easy access to the aggregated information across multiple
>     releases

>
> Here's something I believe would address these 2 needs:
>
>  - Write a program that fetches from GitLab the list of issues and MRs
>    closed by a specified set of releases, and presents them together,
>    grouped by milestone, via 1 single user operation (C.2).

>
>  - And for C.1, sometimes issue/MR titles don't include this
>    information, but commit messages do. So this program could have
>    a mode in which, for each MR, it displays the corresponding
>    commit messages.

>
> I suspect this program exists already. If not, it should be pretty
> cheap to write (modulo perhaps some issue <-> MR matching and
> de-duplication, if we feel fancy).
>
> Once we have this program, it becomes very cheap for the RM to paste
> its output as-is in the changelog file, and/or for us to publish this
> information over HTTPS somewhere (so one can click on links to go
> explore issues/MRs/commits further).
>
> This would solve 90% of my use case and I know how to deal via Git
> with the remaining 10%.
>
> Muri, would this be good enough for you?


Yes!

cheers,
muri