What are release notes for and who reads them? Should/could they be automated by just spitting out bugfixes for the current release, or do they warrant careful human editing? So, anybody with a link to best practices(reasoning behind) in regards to software release notes? ...
What would be the best method of automatically generating a Release Notes text file from a Team Foundation Server 2008 nightly build? ...
Is there any sort of guidelines or best practices on how release notes should be written? I guess I am trying to find the proper balance between making the point without being too specific. Also, do developer usually provide a much more release notes for QA team compare to the one submitted for public view? ...
I need to find release notes for Bash from 3 to 4. I could not find them neither by google.com/linux nor by default google. I also looked unsuccessfully at gnu.org. Where are the release notes for Bash? ...
[Question] Does anyone product release notes via an automated process? If so how. Especially with continuous integration services. Do you just use a script to parse the log files for issues fixed for that release to create the appropriate text file? [Background] Recently I have implemented continuous integration for my hobby projects. A...
I would like to get some visibility of what changes have gone into our TFS build. Is there some way of finding out all of the resolved work items that have gone into the last X number of builds up to a certain date? Could this be done by creating some kind of TFS report or query. If so, has this been done before? [UPDATE] I have disco...
I would like to include release notes with every release of our intranet project. We use Jira. Is there a way to generate the release notes automatically based on the fixes that were submitted to SVN? We usually check the files back with the jira key id. ...
Some background: I would like to automatically create a readme.txt or release.txt file for my project from Jira. For that I would like to know if there is a way to retrieve all closed tickets starting a given ticket Id for project X? I was thinking to do that from my nant script or maybe from my c# code. Is this is a good way or are ther...
My team uses TFS for source control and continuous integration. I'd like to come up with a nice, clean way to show release notes to end users each time we deploy. I'm curious what others are doing to manage release notes in an ASP.NET / TFS environment. ...
We all know it - this is the reading that lists the changes brought by each new version of our favorite software. Whenever it comes bundled as a file (Changes.txt, CHANGES, WhatsNew.txt, etc) or is presented within an installer this is usually the first thing we read before installing/updating. On a current project we have a Changelog.t...
We use git (github) and capistrano (like 99% of the Rails shops out there) to deploy our app to production. What I'd like to do is, after every cap * deploy generate a text file containing all the git commit comments since the last deploy. I can then take that list of commit comments, clean it up, and put it somewhere for consumption. ...
I've got a visual studio deployment project and would like to add an option to view a readme file from the final screen. So basically there would be a link or checkbox that the user can select if they want to view the readme. Does anyone know of an easy way to do this? ...
It's not directly programming related, admittedly, but at some point most software's has bugs that need to be fixed "now. Really now. No it can't wait." And a debate's opened up internally on exactly how hotfix/hot-fix/hot fix should be spelt: i.e., two words, one word, hyphenated. Googling around there doesnt' seem to be any consisten...