[Zope-dev] Re: Extend specification of how to maintain the changelog

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On Jun 18, 2008, at 19:32 , Fred Drake wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:27 PM, yuppie <y.2008 at wcm-solutions.de>  
> wrote:
>> Sorry. I was referring to the current Zope 2 (and CMF) policy:
>>
>> "Note that you don't need to note the fix in the CHANGES.txt on the  
>> trunk if
>> you don't want to. At the time a new feature release is made, we  
>> merge the
>> items in CHANGES.txt from the trunk and current release branch so  
>> that for
>> any given release it notes the actual changes as of that release."
>> http://www.zope.org/DevHome/Subversion/ZopeDevelopmentProcess
>
> Egads.  No wonder there was a question about what's the right thing.
>
> That's not it.

Considering situations where there's more than one release branch that  
"merging" process becomes quite tedious. So I concur, I'd rather get  
rid of that scheme.

jens