[libvirt] [PATCH for 5.10.0] news: Update for 5.10.0 release

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Wed Nov 27 12:08:01 UTC 2019


On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 01:05:04PM +0100, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:24:56AM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> > ---
> > docs/news.xml | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 1 file changed, 124 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
> > index 72c0edb317..b6782df136 100644
> > --- a/docs/news.xml
> > +++ b/docs/news.xml
> > @@ -81,8 +81,132 @@
> >       </change>
> >     </section>
> >     <section title="Improvements">
> 
> [...]
> 
> > +      <change>
> > +        <summary>
> > +          More GLib integration
> > +        </summary>
> > +        <description>
> > +          More patches were merged that replace our internal functions with
> > +          GLib ones. Also some effort was invested in replacing gnulib modules
> > +          with GLib functions.
> > +        </description>
> > +      </change>
> > +      <change>
> > +        <summary>
> > +          Rewrite of Perl scripts into Python
> > +        </summary>
> > +        <description>
> > +          Libvirt used Perl scripts to check for coding style, generate some
> > +          code and things like that. To bring the number of languages used
> > +          down, these scripts were rewritten into Python.
> > +        </description>
> > +      </change>
> 
> IIUC users are the target audience for the news. So far, these are just
> internal refactors that mostly benefit developers.

The target is also distro packagers, so they learn of things that
might affect packaging design.

> Both will be user-visible changes only after we get rid of them.
> (Although I don't think the gnulib removal will be  user-visible other than
> the build speedup)
> 
> To the rest:
> Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>

Regards,
Daniel
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