Re: Display outstanding backported fixes for each release?

Julian Foad wrote on Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 18:29:31 +0000:
> It would be good for visibility if we could show on the web site what changes
> are waiting to be released in maintenance branches. Both merged and nominated
> changes.
>

Sure.

> How could we implement that to get an acceptable display on our web site?
>

One option:

Start using the CHANGES-info-in-log-message convention more pervasively,
and then write a script that:

1. Queries the repository for trunk revnums that have been merged to the
stable branch since the last tag;

2. Parses STATUS for trunk revnums that are candidates for merging (this
is easy to implement using backport.py's libraries);

3. Synthesizes a CHANGES-like listing of all those revisions, distinguishing
the ones that have been merged and the ones that haven't yet been; and
say that even the ones that haven't yet been merged probably will be
before the next release (this is not a promise, but simply a reflection
of our practice of approving most or all pending nominations before
a release).

> (While we're there, we might as well include a list of the new changes on
> trunk too, mightn't we?)

I think this, too, boils to writing the CHANGES info ahead of time,
otherwise the work would amount to a custom user interface around «svn
mergeinfo --show-revs=eligible ^/subversion/trunk ^/subversion/tags/1.latestx.latesty» —
which is a job better suited for third parties such as viewvc or whimsy.
(For one, implementing the functionality in viewvc or whimsy would make
it available to all svn-using ASF projects, not just us.)

Cheers,

Daniel
Received on 2018-12-11 09:29:35 CET