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Hello,

I think that is really great idea.

Do you think extracting bp/bug information (link) from commit message and
adding it to the changelog might also be useful?

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Best regards,
Oleg Gelbukh


On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:

> Hey all!
>
> We're adding a little bit of code to pbr to make the auto-generated
> ChangeLog files a bit more useful. Currently, they are just the git
> changelog, which is kinda useless. So we wrote this:
>
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/52367/
>
> which produces output like this:
>
> http://paste.openstack.org/show/49999  # on a tag
> and
> http://paste.openstack.org/show/50001  # not on a tag
>
> It underscores the need for commit subjects to communicate something,
> which is a good thing.
>
> With that there, it makes changes like:
> * Updated from global requirements
> and
> * Update my mailmap
>
> Kinda lame in the changelog. So we were thinking - what if we recognized
> one or more subject tags to skip things going into the ChangeLog file.
> My first thought was:
>
> NIT:  # use this for tiny commits that are not really worth changelogging
>
> and
>
> AUTO: # use for commits generated by our machines, such as the global
> requirements sync or the Translations sync.
>
> What do people think? Should we bother? Are those good? Would something
> else be better? It's sort of an opt-in feature, so adding it SHOULDN'T
> bork too many people.
>
> Thoughts?
> Monty
>
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