[Ns-developers] Tracking changes

[Tommaso Pecorella]

Hi Tom,

I'll do it, but as far as I can see, this is not the current practice. Mind, I'm advocating that this *should* be the current practice, not the opposite.

Maybe we should update the wiki somewhere to point out this.


Cheers,

Tommaso



On 26 Jan 2012, at 06:59, Tom Henderson wrote:

> On 01/25/2012 02:49 PM, Tommaso Pecorella wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> maybe I'm dumb and I missed it, however I can't find where do we
>> track the changes between two ns-3 versions.
>> 
>> I know there's a "CHANGES.html" in the ns-3-dev folder, however it
>> seems to be changed just before the release date. The other source is
>> mercurial, however the (poor) release manager will have to crawl all
>> the changesets and write down what's been done. Painful.
>> 
>> I'm especially concerned with the changes in APIs or functionalities,
>> as they can be easily missed, and for example with my latest patch I
>> did remove one attribute from a class (it was horribly bugged and
>> couldn't be kept as an attribute anymore).
>> 
>> So, the question is, did I miss something? Wouldn't it be best to
>> have at least a wiki page to track what's been done? Or it's best to
>> directly edit the CHANGES.html as well?
> 
> Yes, please edit CHANGES.html when you make an API or behavioral changes, and also RELEASE_NOTES if you make a change in general including a bug fix.  Else, the release manager will have to go do this later, and the process can be lossy.
> 
> - Tom

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