[Nut-upsdev] NUT release plans (post-2.4.1): ChangeLog format

[Arnaud Quette]

2010/2/10 Charles Lepple <clepple at gmail.com>:
> On Feb 8, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Charles Lepple wrote:
>
>> On Feb 8, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Arnaud Quette wrote:
>>
>>>>>> I also need to search back and see when we actually stopped adding
>>>>>> ChangeLog entries, and merge as appropriate.
>>>>>
>>>>> r1018 "fix some separators"
>>>>> (starting on the 6th July 2007)
>>>>
>>>> Hmm... that's a lot more merging than I thought. Through about October
>>>> 2009,
>>>> we were pretty consistent with ChangeLog entries.
>>>
>>> yup, the other solution being to only dig up from r2117 (ChangeLog
>>> updates stopped at r2116), and concatenate the current ChangeLog with
>>> that.
>>> But this implies to adapt the xsl to output something coherent.
>>
>> Since the ChangeLog isn't designed to be machine-parseable anyway, I am
>> thinking that we just combine them from that point. (svn2cl can easily
>> convert just a selected range from the history.)
>
> See http://boxster.ghz.cc/projects/nut/changeset/2332 for the full details.

excellent.

I've also trimmed it down again, to reduce it from 156Kb to a more
acceptable 38Kb.
now, it contains only 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 entries. The other 118Kb were
all for 2.4.0!

cheers,
Arnaud