ChangeLog request

[Mark Doliner]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> wrote:
> Ari Pollak spake unto us the following wisdom:
>> I have a small request for pidgin developers and the ChangeLog - when
>> fixing something that is assigned to a ticket in Trac, could you
>> reference the ticket number in the ChangeLog entry? That would make it
>> much easier for triagers/packagers to cross-reference bugs without going
>> through all the MTN logs.
>
> While this seems like a very reasonable request, you may yet find the
> following helpful:
>
> mtn log --from t:v2.7.2 --to t:v2.7.1 --no-graph | grep -i fixes
>
> That will get you a quick-and-dirty list of fixes (along with some
> other cruft, probably, for most releases) in the release specified by
> --from which are not in the release specified by --to.  We tag all of
> our releases with tags of the form 'vX.Y.Z'.

I think putting ticket numbers in the ChangeLog is a great idea and
I'll try to remember to do it for my changes.

There's also this:
http://developer.pidgin.im/query?status=closed&group=resolution&milestone=2.7.2

--Mark