Re: [PATCH v2] Script to generate ChangeLog-like output

[Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>]

On 14/01/19 3:04 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> Thank you very much for developing this script.
> But we can't presume it works entirely correctly yet.
> Programs tend to have bugs, until we fix them.


Thanks, the plan is to actively maintain the script to add features all 
the way into 2.30 and maybe even 2.31.  The idea of stopping ChangeLog 
writing in 2.29 is to allow us to clean up patchwork and start cleaning 
up our own workflows so that we can automate our patch reviews (or at 
least begin the process) by 2.30 release.  That way by 2.31 we will have 
the automation in place.


It is of course a pie-in-the-sky kind of plan but hopefully we will be 
able to pull it off.  As for the script, I have added it is a project in 
our local makerspace (I get requests from students for projects, 
hopefully this is a simple enough start) and if it is considered 
important enough for GSoC, I don't mind mentoring students working 
globally on additional backends for the script.


Siddhesh