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author | W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu> | 2009-12-13 06:19:23 -0500 |
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committer | W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu> | 2009-12-13 06:19:23 -0500 |
commit | 4d057dab603f42ec40b911dbee6792dcf107bd14 (patch) | |
tree | 9a73459aa160e3c96f4893b132543f412ca6e97f /.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/a4720227-43cf-49aa-8f9f-f49f46e3e809 | |
parent | dff6bd9bf89ca80e2265696a478e540476718c9c (diff) | |
download | bugseverywhere-4d057dab603f42ec40b911dbee6792dcf107bd14.tar.gz |
Converted libbe.storage.vcs.base to new Storage format.
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diff --git a/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/a4720227-43cf-49aa-8f9f-f49f46e3e809/body b/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/a4720227-43cf-49aa-8f9f-f49f46e3e809/body new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d29f85 --- /dev/null +++ b/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/a4720227-43cf-49aa-8f9f-f49f46e3e809/body @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:53:31PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: +> > It would make it much easier on the Debian package maintainer if +> > the Bugs Everywhere project would make conventional tarball +> > releases, with conventional version numbers, with a changelog +> > describing what has changed between versions. +> How do people feel about pushing for a 1.0 release, with Trevor's tree +> plus a finished cfbe merge? Or would we rather wait until afterwards +> to try for cfbe? + +Sounds good to me. Not that my tree is much ahead of the trunk at the +moment. We've talked over most of these issues a few times, so I'll +just summarize where I think we stand on the steps needed to make a +release. + +** cfbe integration + +Postpone until we work out bzr/hg versioning [1]? + +** Conventional version number + +Set to "1.0.0" using libbe.version._VERSION. + +** NEWS file + +Depending on our level of masochism, either something starting out +along the lines of [2] + bzr log --gnu-changelog -n1 -r 200.. +(commit 200, or + aaron.bentley@utoronto.ca-20060411035623-9b8d222282a26ce1 + was the last time anyone touched the NEWS file), +or a much abbreviated entry [3,4], along the lines of my current NEWS +file (changed just a few minutes ago). + +** Tag bzr commit + + bzr tag 1.0.0 + +** Create tarball + +From Ben[5]: + bzr export /tmp/be-1.0.0.tar.gz + + +References: + +[1] +On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 05:38:03PM -0400, Steve Losh wrote: +> On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:59 AM, W. Trevor King wrote: +> > Steve's also versioning it with Mercurial. Will he mind changing to +> > Bazaar? +> +> Yeah, I've tried bazaar but really don't like the interface at all. If +> everyone else really wants me to move it over I guess I can though. + +[2] +On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:05:38AM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: +> Actually, there's a `bzr log --gnu-changelog` now, and `bzr help +> log-formats` offers some more styles. (None of them seem to match +> my preferred style for release announcements exactly, which would +> be `git shortlog`-style.) + +[3] +On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 07:21:10PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: +> I actually don't think the commit log needs to be part of the release at +> all. It's of interest only to those who want fine-level detail about +> changes to every file, and for that purpose I think read access to the +> VCS is much better. Packaging a static copy of the commit log as plain +> text seems pointless. +> +> Rather, we should treat a user-changes level “NEWS” file (or whatever +> name we choose for it) as part of the documentation, and set the +> expectation among the team that it will be updated for each user-visible +> change being worked on, like any other documentation. + +[4] +On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:11:31AM -0400, Chris Ball wrote: +> Hi, +> +> > That's not a changelog, that's a commit log of every source-level +> > commit made. Far too much detail for a changelog of +> > *user-visible* changes associated with a release. +> +> I think I agree with both of you. :) It seems like it's both true that +> there's no point in keeping a GNU-style ChangeLog these days, and that +> if we make a release we should write an announce mail that directly +> mentions new user-visible changes as well as attaching the commit log. +> That smaller list of highly user-visible changes could live in NEWS, +> or in the announce mail, or both. + +[5] +On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:54:05AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: +> Even better: ‘bzr export /tmp/foo.tar.gz’ will create a source tarball +> of all the files in the branch's VCS inventory. All we need to do is +> start the practice of tagging a release in the VCS, and export the +> tarball at that time. + +-- +This email may be signed or encrypted with GPG (http://www.gnupg.org). +The GPG signature (if present) will be attached as 'signature.asc'. +For more information, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy + +My public key is at http://www.physics.drexel.edu/~wking/pubkey.txt diff --git a/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/a4720227-43cf-49aa-8f9f-f49f46e3e809/values b/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/a4720227-43cf-49aa-8f9f-f49f46e3e809/values new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f205d6 --- /dev/null +++ b/.be/bea86499-824e-4e77-b085-2d581fa9ccab/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/a4720227-43cf-49aa-8f9f-f49f46e3e809/values @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +Alt-id: <20091118011403.GB9503@mjolnir.home.net> + + +Author: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu> + + +Content-type: text/plain + + +Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:14:03 +0000 + + +In-reply-to: 72a519e3-3d6b-4f0f-b412-1310efd255eb + |