[libvirt] [RFC] Toward a better NEWS file

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Wed Oct 19 12:54:06 UTC 2016


On Wed, 2016-10-19 at 12:58 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Why don't we simply have a NEWS file in GIT, and require that
> non-trivial commits or patch series include an update to NEWS,
> so the NEWS file gets populated at time the feature/bug fix
> gets merged.

I'm strongly against adding more generated files to the
repository; if anything, we should have *less* of them[1].

But if we required the source file, docs/news.html.in, to
be updated along with notable changes instead, I would be
all for it! :)


[1] Hello, HACKING!
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