[libvirt PATCH 5/5] news: Add information about old releases

Ján Tomko jtomko at redhat.com
Wed Jun 3 12:44:51 UTC 2020


On a Tuesday in 2020, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>Until libvirt 2.5.0 we didn't have a real process for release
>notes in place, and we just published the list of commits that
>had made it into each release, dividing them into categories that
>mostly matched the sections we use today. Those documents haven't
>been relevant for years, but they're still in the git repository
>and collectively take up almost 2 MiB of disk space.
>
>Let's import the only valuable piece of information they contain,
>the release date for each libvirt versions, into the current
>document and then drop them for good.
>
>Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>
>---
> NEWS.rst               |  721 +++++++-
> docs/news-2005.html.in |   28 -
> docs/news-2006.html.in |  354 ----
> docs/news-2007.html.in |  534 ------
> docs/news-2008.html.in |  580 -------
> docs/news-2009.html.in | 1603 -----------------
> docs/news-2010.html.in | 2218 ------------------------
> docs/news-2011.html.in | 3314 -----------------------------------
> docs/news-2012.html.in | 3012 --------------------------------
> docs/news-2013.html.in | 3675 ---------------------------------------
> docs/news-2014.html.in | 3418 ------------------------------------
> docs/news-2015.html.in | 2864 ------------------------------
> docs/news-2016.html.in | 3740 ----------------------------------------
> 13 files changed, 718 insertions(+), 25343 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 docs/news-2005.html.in
> delete mode 100644 docs/news-2006.html.in
> delete mode 100644 docs/news-2007.html.in
> delete mode 100644 docs/news-2008.html.in
> delete mode 100644 docs/news-2009.html.in
> delete mode 100644 docs/news-2010.html.in
> delete mode 100644 docs/news-2011.html.in
> delete mode 100644 docs/news-2012.html.in
> delete mode 100644 docs/news-2013.html.in
> delete mode 100644 docs/news-2014.html.in
> delete mode 100644 docs/news-2015.html.in
> delete mode 100644 docs/news-2016.html.in
>
>diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
>index 128b899b88..82b93d5a44 100644
>--- a/NEWS.rst
>+++ b/NEWS.rst
>@@ -3354,9 +3354,724 @@ v2.5.0 (2016-12-04)
>   - Fix compilation on macOS
>
>
>-Older libvirt releases didn't have proper release notes: if you are interested
>-in changes between them, you should check out docs/news-\*.html or the full git
>-log (see instructions in ChangeLog).
>+v2.4.0 (2016-11-01)
>+===================
>+
>+No release notes.
>+
>[...]
>+
>+v0.0.1 (2005-12-19)
>+===================
>+
>+No release notes.
>

This looks excessive - I'd rather drop them for good. We still have the
info in the tagged relase commits.

With the docs/news.*html reference dropped above:

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>

Jano
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