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

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Wed Jun 3 13:21:28 UTC 2020


On Wed, 2020-06-03 at 14:44 +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On a Tuesday in 2020, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > -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.

I think it's valuable to retain that information and have it all
stored in one place, and considering how many lines we're removing
with this patch we come out massively on top either way.

That said, this is not a hill I'm particularly interested in dying
on, so if you insist on dropping the information altogether I will
begrudgingly comply :)

-- 
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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