Re: [libvirt] Improving our ChangeLog format?

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 : > >   Robert Haas has documented how to get commit summaries and sizes from >   Git. He wrote a perl script (which Tom Lane improved) that allows you >   to produce a changelog suitable for release notes from Git. > > > http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb?p=postgresql.git;a=blob_plain;f=src/tool... > > > The changelog mention might be useful for us, as the PostgreSQL > changelog looks a bunch more useful than ours. > >   The PostgreSQL ChangeLog: >   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. >   Our ChangeLog: >   http://libvirt.org/news.html > > > Mentioning this in case anyone has the time/inclination to look into > it.  Any 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.