Where to keep future release note snippets for our future 2.8 release ?

Geert Janssens geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be
Sun Oct 11 13:19:22 EDT 2015


On Saturday 10 October 2015 15:43:31 John Ralls wrote:
> > On Oct 10, 2015, at 12:26 PM, Geert Janssens
> > <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be> wrote:
> > 
> > (Accidentally sent to gnucash-user, I'll repost here for proper
> > follow-up)
> > 
> > I know this is early. We're not thinking about releasing master yet.
> > 
> > However, I just pushed a commit [1] that changes an option on the
> > transaction report. As a result saved reports/open reports may
> > loose one option when users upgrade (if they had set this
> > particular option).
> > 
> > I believe this is information we should pass on to users that are
> > considering an upgrade so they know they have to check their
> > saved/open reports afterwards.
> > 
> > First question would be: what's the best place to put this info so
> > that most users will find it when upgrading ?
> > 
> > My first guess would be the release announcement. I'm open for
> > other/additional locations.
> > 
> > As we're still far away of the new release I worry we'll forget to
> > add this to the release announcement. So what can we come up with
> > to remind us this has to be added when release is due ?
> 
> The release announcement comes from commit messages, so write a good
> one! You could even say “This needs to be mentioned in the release
> announcement” followed by the text you want in the announcement.
> Since this commit is already pushed, make some trivial change to a
> comment and write a commit note about the lost option on it, using
> the same subject line as your first commit.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls

Good idea. Done:
https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/commit/83f82040

Geert


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