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[Daniel Bartholomew <dbart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 18, 2013 9:31 AM, "Sergei Golubchik" <serg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi, Daniel!
>
> On Jul 18, Daniel Bartholomew wrote:
> > > On Jul 17, Daniel Bartholomew wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've begun the prep work for the MariaDB 5.5.32 release. The
> > > > packages are uploaded and the mirrors should start picking them up
> > > > soon.
> > > >
> > > > The draft changelog and release notes are here:
> > > >
> > > > - https://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-5532-changelog/
> > >
> > > This looks wrong. Surely, there are many more changesets under the
> > > "mysql-5.5.32 merge" than just "BLACKHOLE BINARY LOG WITH ROW".
> > >
> >
> > There are. The modified version of the --kb-short command I use to
> > generate the changelogs automatically strips out the upstream
> > revisions from Oracle.
> >
> > Including them can really balloon the size of the changelogs. So
> > instead of including them I just link to the MySQL changelogs in the
> > release notes.
> >
> > In this instance the script left the blackhole commit in there and
> > stripped all the others that were part of that merge.
> >
> > I can either remove the blackhole merge from the changelog or add in
> > the rest of the Oracle merges. Which would you prefer?
>
> I'd prefer to keep them all.
>
> Almost nobody reads the changelog anyway. But who does, I believe,
> expects to see all the changes on one page.
>
> MySQL changelog link is good - but it's more like our relnotes page, a
> simplified user-level description of whatever was done in the release.
>
> While our changelog is really technical, everything that was committed,
> log. It's not a replacement of a relnotes, it has value on itself. But
> then, it should not be filtered, it should indeed include everything
> that was committed.
>

Ok, no problem. I'll update the changelog page.

Thanks.

-- 
Daniel Bartholomew