[Freeipa-devel] What is Changelog on wiki for?

[Dmitri Pal]

On 01/24/2014 10:39 AM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Martin Kosek wrote:
>> When working on release, this question comes to my mind every time -
>> what is
>> the following page good for? :)
>>
>> http://www.freeipa.org/page/Changelog
>>
>> To me, it is usually just an annoyance of the release process. You
>> can simply
>> get all the data with "git log" derivatives, so I do not see a point of
>> maintaining this page.
>>
>> I see benefits of having shortlog in Release pages like [1], but not
>> with this
>> one. I am thus proposing to deprecate it.
>>
>> [1] http://www.freeipa.org/page/Releases/3.3.3
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
> I used to just cherry-pick the big things then figured that some
> people care about everything so switched to that instead. Yes, the
> data is in git, but if one doesn't know git well then it can be hard
> to tell where something was fixed.
>
> I won't yell if it's dropped, but it's just a cut-n-paste after all.

It is internet search-able and can be easily pointed to in different
follow up materials.
I would rather keep it, but a wiki formatting script might be a good idea.

>
> rob
>
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

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