[Freeipa-devel] What is Changelog on wiki for?

[Martin Kosek]

On 01/27/2014 05:23 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 16:53 +0100, Martin Kosek wrote:
>> On 01/27/2014 04:02 PM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>> On 01/27/2014 03:32 PM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> It is useful because you can more easily see what made it into the
>>>> particular dot release rather than finding the patch you want then
>>>> knowing to search backwards for the Become xx.yy commit. I saw it as a
>>>> poor-man's way of finding changes.
>>>
>>> I think a "poor man" can open up the individual Release notes and look there.
>>>
>>>
>>> And a "rich man" (who has the repo cloned) can just use Git.
>>>
>>> $ git log -i --grep 'drop selinux'
>>> commit ad6abdb576b2ebeb941eb99fd141bf78918143c1
>>> Author: Martin Kosek <mkosek at redhat.com>
>>> Date:   Thu Jun 13 14:40:52 2013 +0200
>>>
>>>     Drop SELinux subpackage
>>>
>>>     All SELinux policy needed by FreeIPA server is now part of the global
>>>     system SELinux policy which makes the subpackage redundant and slowing
>>>     down the installation. This patch drops it.
>>>
>>>     https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3683
>>>     https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3684
>>>
>>> $ git tag --contains ad6abdb576b2ebeb941eb99fd141bf78918143c1
>>> beta_1-3-3-0
>>> beta_2-3-3-0
>>> release-3-3-0
>>> release-3-3-1
>>> release-3-3-2
>>> release-3-3-3
>>
>> I couldn't say it better. Let's drop the manual changelog and use some modern
>> way to do it - case is closed.
> 
> May be you can stick into the Release notes page the actual query that
> gives you the changelog from cgit ?
> 
> It should probably be
> https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/freeipa.git/log/?qt=range&q=release-3.3.2..release-3.3.3
> 
> But at the moment it returns an internal server error, I will ask on
> fedora-admin
> 
> Simo.

I can do that. Just note that the between-versions diff changelog in Release
notes stays, we are just discussing removing the global one [1].

Martin

[1] http://www.freeipa.org/page/Changelog