bug#19113: Generate a ChangeLog file from commit logs

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 05 Dec 2014 13:49:02 -0500 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> 
wrote: 

>> This is, of course, the PR system you find on Github and such sites.
SM> That's also the "patch queue management" I mentioned earlier.

Right.  I think if you call it a PR system most people will know what
you mean nowadays.

>> It works for thousands of projects.  I see no reason why Emacs
>> is special.

SM> Because nobody has set such a thing up (and AFAICT Savannah doesn't
SM> have such a thing built-in, oddly enough).

Hmm, it would require some technical work:

* targeted hydra builds for a specific branch

* a click-and-done way to merge a specific branch into master or emacs-24

* maybe a comment system

* maybe debbugs integration

* ability to review the potential ChangeLog entries that will be
  generated from the commit

Is this remotely realistic?

Ted