[libvirt] [PATCH 06/15] NEWS: Split old entries (2009)

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Wed, 2015-10-14 at 11:39 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:25:35AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 10:36:02AM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > The changes for releases earlier than 0.7.1 were mostly lumped
> > > together as opposed to being tidly organized with one change per
> > > line, like we have done from that point onwards.
> > > 
> > > As a result, they look awful in the HTML version and don't work
> > > too well in the plain text version either.
> > > 
> > > Luckily, except for the very first releases, the information is
> > > still very detailed, so it's enough to organize it properly.
> > > ---
> > >  docs/news.html.in | 1232 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> > > --------------
> > >  1 file changed, 677 insertions(+), 555 deletions(-)
> > 
> > I wonder, do we really want the news.html file growing without
> > bound. Might a better approach be to start a new news.html.in
> > file in January of each year. Then we can just split up the
> > current file one for year past year.
> 
> Or rather, always put the current year's news into news.html.in
> but at the start of each year, archive the previous year's news
> into news-$LASTYEAR.html.in.  That ways news.html.in always
> points to current news.

Would that apply to the plain text version as well?
That would mean having an additional 14 NEWS-* files
in the release tarball, with one more to be added in
just a few months.

Aside from that, I like the idea. But it's orthogonal
to this series and should be done as a follow-up,
once everything's already nice and tidy.

Cheers.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team