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From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] git rm Changelog?
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Am 25.01.2011 15:35, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 01/25/2011 03:57 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> Am 25.01.2011 00:06, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>>    
>>> ... or at least "git mv Changelog Changelog.old"?
>>>
>>> It only goes back to 0.12.0 so that there is hardly a place in the git
>>> repo to look for new features in 0.13 and 0.14.
>>>      
>> Or maybe update it?
>>
>> I find it rather unfriendly to our users to say "Here is a new release.
>> In the unlikely case that you really want to know what has changed,
>> please bother yourself to filter the interesting stuff out of these
>> thousand git commits".
>>    
> 
> Logistically, I prefer doing highlights in a mail verses having a 
> committed file.  A Changelog file needs to be committed prior to tagging 
> a release and cannot be enhanced after the fact.  The nice bit about an 
> email is that folks can respond to it with additional details.
> 
> A wiki page (similar to what kernel newbies does) would be nice to 
> supplement what's included in the release notes.

We do have a wiki page "ChangeLog" and there are more than enough links
to it, it just hasn't been updated since 0.12.5.

I don't really care too much in which way we do it. But for 0.13 we
don't have any kind of a high-level changelog on qemu.org or in the
release tarball, and I think we should.

Kevin