Re: random idea- cvs overviews for gnome journal?

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 13:12 -0700, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 03:50:00PM -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> > Would it make sense to do a monthly (or weekly) review of cvs-commits
> > traffic to get the highlights out into gnome-journal (and hence the
> > public) and to provide sources for feature lists for the release notes?
>
> I'll leave that to Jim since he's the editor. :-)  I suspect that he'd
> be happy to accomdate it if someone will do the work.

Just to be clear, I think it is useful, with or without gnome-journal,
since bug folks could easily read it to pick up things to test,
release-note writers and PR people could use it to pick things to brag
about, etc. It just seems like gnome-journal is a reasonable vehicle to
use to distribute and edit such a thing.

> > This would be potentially be a high-dedication but high-reward project
> > for someone. It could also be broken up by module into tasks for several
> > people, if they wanted to.
>
> Does Subversion have good metadata that we could do to make this easier?
> Maybe a good driver towards using Subversion (like KDE is moving towards)
> for all this.  Because it does seem like a lot of work.  A good project
> for someone who has good skills in XML stuff I think.

Unless the metadata is of the form 'bug fix', 'feature', etc., I don't
think it is of much value for this particular task. But I'm happy to be
wrong :)

> I still get the cvs commit summaries, but they are just stats
> about who are the top committers, and what module was the most active
> it doesn't provide a lot of detail unfortunately.  I could follow up
> on it if people want me to and see how it gets generated.

Again, unless we're generating metadata, I don't think we can autogen
much. It's just a reading exercise, really... still, a very valuable
one.

Luis