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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 07:27:23 +0100
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To: Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] NEWS file rename
From: pierre.php@gmail.com (Pierre Joye)

On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:23 AM, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev@sugarcrm.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> I'd to agree on one thing tho'. NEWS should not be manually edited.
>> With or without git, it is a (relatively small) pain. Back to the git
>> migration time, David and I discussed about generating it from the
>> commit messages. That implies to enforce a commit message format, a
>> 1st attempt is described here:
>> https://wiki.php.net/vcs/gitworkflow#new_commit_message_format. The
>> RMs could then call a script to generate it on release.
>
> Commit messages themselves won't be very useful - a fix could include a
> number of commits, and people regularly write commit messages not in
> format suitable for NEWS. I'd rather prefer them to put it in NEWS file
> - where they have an example of how it's done right, and where they can
> put it in proper order, proper sections, etc.
> It won't save much work because if people would neglect to do it with
> NEWS file, they'd also neglect to put messages in commit in proper
> format,

Well, we could write a pre commit script and reject commits with
invalid messages, hard but fair :)

Cheers,
-- 
Pierre

@pierrejoye