Re: New Boost Website: Open to Volunteers!

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2022-04-16 21:59:31

James E. King III wrote:
> I have to disagree with that.  GitHub provides us with labels, and people
> should be using reasonable check-in comments.  Instead of having a single
> collision file like changelog (I have seen this on django-simple-history and it
> isn't
> pretty) it would
> be much better to have a label for a commit that should be included in the
> release notes and pull the first line of that commit into the release notes with a
> link to the pull request that it was associated with.

I don't think this works well in practice. I did suggest that same thing once to
Daniel James (when he was still maintaining the website) and he correctly
disabused me of that notion. Commit messages just don't good release notes
make.