[En-Nut-Discussion] Changelog for releases

[Ole Reinhardt]

Hi Harald,

> > How can we achieve that every developer will cultivate it like this?
> 
> By giving a good example? ;-)

Yes, this would be the best. But when going through more than 1.500
commits it is really hard to decide by importance and to extract the
essentials from the logs.

> It's actually like that. For example, I never got the headers in compiler.h right. Now everyone just adds more stuff and it becomes more and more difficult to read and maintain this pile of sh*t. If you present a NEWS file like it is now, developers will simply add their SVN log entries. How should they know better?
> 
> But I fully agree, the VLC NEWS file is the way to go. So my initial
> 
> http://ethernut.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ethernut/trunk/NEWS?revision=4307&view=markup
> 
> wasn't that bad, it was just too long.

It was totally fine! So what about making a cut in the NEWS file, keep
the history and add a little explanation with a sample on top. And from
now on only add important (to the enduser) changes while trying to
increase svn log quality as well by giving more explanatory descriptions
there too?

Bye,

Ole

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