Marshall Clow wrote:
On Nov 24, 2010, at 7:17 PM, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
Someone wrote:
I want to know the complete list of changes.
I agree; it would be a useful thing.
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 08:33:58AM -0600, Matt Chambers wrote:
If the tracker is being used correctly, shouldn't the complete list of bug fixes be a query on the tracker for issues that were known in <version-1> and have been fixed in <version>?
Bugs are marked "fixed" as soon as the change is made in the trunk. However, the release procedure requires a second, manual step to merge the fix into the release branch.
One problem I've repeatedly run into is that the second step is often missed. The result is that the issue tracker is much less useful than it could be. I think that would have to change before your idea (which otherwise appeals to me) would work.
FWIW, what I do is that I add a note to the trac ticket when I fix the bug on the trunk, and then close the ticket when I merge to release.
Another alternative is to make release notes live in the same SVN tree as the code. Then, one will add a release note when fixing bug, and a subsequent merge to release branch will pick the release note as well. But the requires some tool support. - Volodya