Re: [groff] Savannah bug field usage protocol

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 05:43:12PM -0400, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2018-04-21T14:21:03+0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > Some projects maintain a `pending' release notes so that significant
> > fixes and changes get added to as they're implemented.  This might avoid
> > the need to keep some bugs non-closed until the release.  Come release,
> > the file's reviewed, some minor things with highsight ditched, and the
> > commit log scanned for anything missing.
> 
> Our commit discipline is already supposed to include updating the
> ChangeLog, and, where appropriate, NEWS files as part of the commit
> where the underlying change is made.  Do you think that should suffice
> for aiding the preparation of Release Notes?

I agree with the sentiment, but do the ~40 lines of NEWS entries since
1.22.3 really reflect the ~1900 lines of ChangeLog for the same period?
I'm not really qualified to prepare updates there, but the ratio seems
unusually low to me.

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden