From 4d057dab603f42ec40b911dbee6792dcf107bd14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:19:23 -0500 Subject: Converted libbe.storage.vcs.base to new Storage format. --- .../a4720227-43cf-49aa-8f9f-f49f46e3e809/body | 102 --------------------- 1 file changed, 102 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 .be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/a4720227-43cf-49aa-8f9f-f49f46e3e809/body (limited to '.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/a4720227-43cf-49aa-8f9f-f49f46e3e809/body') diff --git a/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/a4720227-43cf-49aa-8f9f-f49f46e3e809/body b/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/a4720227-43cf-49aa-8f9f-f49f46e3e809/body deleted file mode 100644 index 5d29f85..0000000 --- a/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/a4720227-43cf-49aa-8f9f-f49f46e3e809/body +++ /dev/null @@ -1,102 +0,0 @@ -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 -- cgit