Re: Teaching 'release.py write-changelog' about merged revisions

On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 5:26 PM Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name> wrote:
>
> Daniel Shahaf wrote on Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:28 +0000:
> > It should instead do two things: one, fetch the log message of the
> > mentioned revision(s) (r1842260) and pass it through the existing
> > "Extract CHANGES summary" logic; two, parse the STATUS entry embedded in
> > the log message, as in the attached example. The script could do either
> > or these, or even do both and let the RM combine the two versions.
> >
> > Any volunteers to implement this?
>
> r1842930 implements the "Extract from STATUS" part of this.

Excellent! This makes the feature much more useful for backports to
release branches.

-- 
Johan