[sugar] NEWS files

[Julius B. Lucks]

Should all activities maintain a NEWS file in this way?

Cheers,

Julius


Please Reply to julius at younglucks.com

On Jul 6, 2007, at 5:08 AM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpg at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> we need to have an entry in the NEWS files for each new release or
> snapshot we get on the images. We should not list there every single
> change we do to the code (that's git log), just stuff which is
> interesting for testers and users.
>
> Here is how I'm going to organize the process for the modules I'm
> handling releases for. Maintainers of other modules are encouraged to
> use the same format.
>
> When you commit something news worthy add an entry at the top of the
> NEWS file. I will add the snapshot number when I release it.
>
> * Put your irc nick at the end of the entry.
> * Please be picky about the format so that we don't end up with a mess
> and it's also easily parsable. I will add a sanity check to
> maint-helper.py and activities setup.py at some point to ensure this.
> * It's not in the examples before but if you are fixing a ticket add  
> it
> at the beginning of the entry as #12345.
>
> For sugar, sugar-datastore, sugar-artwork, hulahop:
>
> NEWS ---
>
> < Add an entry here >
>
> Snapshot de8b3b4c01
>
> * Use HAL to get battery informations. (marco)
> * Improvements in the mesh view layout. (marco)
> * Hide the active palette when another popup. (tomeu)
> * Icons in the buddy menu items. (edsiper)
>
> ---
>
> For journal-activity, web-activity, xbook, write:
>
> NEWS ---
>
> < Add an entry here >
>
> 23
>
> * Fix refresh issues. (tomeu)
> * Fix journal icon in the bottom bar. (tomeu)
> * Implement back bar in the detailed view. (tomeu)
>
> ---
>
> Please do it, it will help testing a lot. Also it will be a good way  
> for
> external people and activity authors to track what's going on in the
> sugar land.
>
> Thanks,
> Marco
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