[ros-dev] Improving our procedure

[Alex Ionescu]

I still don't see how writing such a webservice + figuring out how to use it is simpler than just dumping your user log and copy/pasting the entries with a little bit of formatting cleanup.

It never took me more than an hour, tops, for hundreds of commits in a given release!

I don't understand how a ReactOS developer, which (at least I fucking hope so) probably spends 6 hours debugging an issue by looking at prints, stepping through code, and finally discovering the race condition (the most BORING work ever) at least once a week, can't afford doing one hour of boring work every 6 months?!
Just how lazy are you...

On 2009-12-15, at 12:24 PM, Ged Murphy wrote:

> I definitely like this idea. It's much more workable than a blind script,
> changelogs _need_ human interaction.
> The problem is, who would write such a webservice and would people use it?
> 
> Ged.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces at reactos.org] On
> Behalf Of Timo Kreuzer
> Sent: 15 December 2009 16:45
> To: ReactOS Development List
> Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Improving our procedure
> 
> Thinking about the changelog problem, I had the following idea:
> 
> On the website there would be a place maybe called "myDevelopment" or
> something. Here you would automatically find a list of all your recent
> commits. Seperated by release version. By default every new commit
> creates a new entry here. But you can manage the entries.
> - Edit the message and component of each entry
> - Mark an entry as trivial. These changes don't get into the changelog
> at all.
> - Split an entry, if a single commit contains 2 changes. You can fix up
> the messages afterwards.
> - Merge 2 or more entries into one new.
> On release the whole stuff will be gathered together.
> 
> Additional features:
> - Mark an entry as active workitem. Folling commits will automatically
> go in there.
> - Show recent activity on the frontpage.
> - Add planned activities, private notes, TODOs, FIXMEs, status, bugzilla
> links, etc
> 
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Best regards,
Alex Ionescu