[maemo-developers] 3.2007.10-7 - Detailed change log?

[From: Neil MacLeod]

Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We certainly know what we've fixed, but the issue is that there's
> no reasonable way to know what part of that is relevant to you.
> 

At the very least publish those bugs that are aliased to bugs in the Public bugzilla. You have the public bugs aliased to internal bug references and I assume (bad I know) that a similar relationship exists internally in which case simply pull out those aliased bugs that are fixed in the most recent release. Any half-decent bug tracking system should allow this type of query.

> I don't think anyone here is willing to take the cost of e.g. testing
> all the major bugs fixed from the intermediate development releases and
> test whether they can be also replicated in the previous public release,
> especially as <1% of that work would actually produce anything to the
> release notes (and even less to end-user release notes) and this large
> testing cost (for example some tests need quite elaborate setups)
> wouldn't do anything to make the new release any better!
> 

Is there any scope here to introduce automated testing? It sounds like that's what you need.

However I fail to understand what your point has to do with the generation of a changelog.

> 
> 	- Eero