Re: Release Notes, Bonsai, and the List


Subject: Re: Release Notes, Bonsai, and the List
From: Håkan Waara (hwaara@chello.se)
Date: Tue Aug 21 2001 - 11:15:01 CDT


David Chart wrote:
> I'm trying to put together complete release notes for new releases of
AbiWord.
>
> At the moment I am primarily relying on this list for information, but
> I'd like to use bonsai as well.
>
> Bonsai only says who checked something in, so if you check in someone
> else's patch, *particularly* if they didn't send it to the list, please
> email the list to say so, so that I credit the right person.
>
> Actually, if people notified all checkins to the list, it would make my
> job a lot easier... ;-)
>

To make your job easier, people could put the contributor's email in the
CVS commit comment, so you could read it in bonsai.

That's how we do it in the Mozilla community.

-- 
Håkan Waara (hwaara@chello.se)



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