Re: NEWS for NM 0.9 ?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 12:00 +0200, Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Same as I asked about one year ago:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2010-August/msg00047.html

Yes, I botched that part for 0.9.  I've been trying hard to keep NEWS
0.8.x up-to-date but NEWS for 0.9 slipped.  I'd since updated the NEWS
file with many of the new features and items for 0.9.  So I get
half-credit here :)

> Would it please be possibly to maintain a NEWS file together with the  
> checkins? This should not be a 'changelog' about every checkin, but a  
> rough overview of what is actually worthy to be noted between version  
> updates (a typo is not worthy imho).

Yes, I've since updated; I also spent a while putting together a more
consumer friendly blog post here, and I'll be sending the release email
in the next few minutes based on that:

http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2011/08/25/when-the-sun-shines-well-shine-together/

> As a downstream packager it is terrible always having to run after all  
> kind of systems to find out what is new between any .minor release  
> (here from 0.8.9997 to 0.9 for example) and why it would be worthy to  
> package it for our users.

Yeah, I understand completely and I'm sorry.  When putting together the
release mail and the blog post yesterday I went to look at NEWS
(assuming I'd already updated it with new features) so that I could use
the contents of it for the release mail and was like "Oh sh*t" because I
know people have asked for me to keep it up to date before.  Then I
started thinking about a 'make release' target that would check if NEWS
was updated within the last two days and fail the release tarball if it
wasn't, so that this doesn't happen again.

> In plus, our packaging policy even disallows packaging new versions  
> without a proper changelog entry.
> 
> Thanks for considering this in the future release cycle.
> 
> For 0.9 I assume there will be an announcement-mail coming out soon?

Yes, today, with an overview of the changes.

Dan