[libvirt] [PATCH for 5.10.0] news: Update for 5.10.0 release

[Michal Privoznik]

On 11/27/19 1:19 PM, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:08:01 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 01:05:04PM +0100, Ján Tomko wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:24:56AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>>>> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> docs/news.xml | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>> 1 file changed, 124 insertions(+)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
>>>> index 72c0edb317..b6782df136 100644
>>>> --- a/docs/news.xml
>>>> +++ b/docs/news.xml
>>>> @@ -81,8 +81,132 @@
>>>>        </change>
>>>>      </section>
>>>>      <section title="Improvements">
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>> +      <change>
>>>> +        <summary>
>>>> +          More GLib integration
>>>> +        </summary>
>>>> +        <description>
>>>> +          More patches were merged that replace our internal functions with
>>>> +          GLib ones. Also some effort was invested in replacing gnulib modules
>>>> +          with GLib functions.
>>>> +        </description>
>>>> +      </change>
>>>> +      <change>
>>>> +        <summary>
>>>> +          Rewrite of Perl scripts into Python
>>>> +        </summary>
>>>> +        <description>
>>>> +          Libvirt used Perl scripts to check for coding style, generate some
>>>> +          code and things like that. To bring the number of languages used
>>>> +          down, these scripts were rewritten into Python.
>>>> +        </description>
>>>> +      </change>
>>>
>>> IIUC users are the target audience for the news. So far, these are just
>>> internal refactors that mostly benefit developers.
>>
>> The target is also distro packagers, so they learn of things that
>> might affect packaging design.
> 
> Well in this case we didn't really remove anything yet so even distro
> packagers may get saturated by these entries if we do it too
> often without any real change.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wolf
> 

I view news.xml not only as a way of communicating changes to 
users/packagers but also as a way of giving credit to developers of some 
important features. If we don't want to advertise these two, that's 
fine. But then we should also consider blockdev paragraph - it's a 
change that's transparent to users, isn't it? Should they care that we 
implemented it?

Michal