[csw-maintainers] submitpkg in cswutils-1.14.5

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 21.12.2009 um 22:51 schrieb Philip Brown:
> On Monday, December 21, 2009, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
> <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> oh let's NOT include all svn messages please.
>>> too much information potentially
>>
>> I'll first explain why I was thinking of including them.  I'm aiming
>> at automating all the bits that don't absolutely require human
>> intervention.  I assume that as the release manager, you would like  
>> to
>> know what has changed since the last release.
>
> as release manager, I might like t know if anythng IMPORTANT has
> changed. parsing all those entries is the antithesis of automaton. it
> requires detailed human scrutiny, if the maintained has been writng
> detailed change logs.
>
> perhaps it might be beneficial if the tool optionally displayed the
> logs to the mantainer only. then they can determine if there is
> anything important to pass on to the release manager?

When we are talking about automation it may be useful to work towards
automatic build: When someone makes a tag the comment to the tag may
include the relevant message what has changed since the last tag only.


Best regards

   -- Dago