[gdal-dev] NEWS.md for last release

[Even Rouault]

Hi Javier,

Just a logical consequence of how the release process works. Bug fixes 
releases are done from the release/3.9 branch, so the NEWS.md file for a 
3.9.x release is edited there, and not in master. And we don't forward 
port the changes of the NEWS.md from release/* branches to master. There 
are pros & cons in doing that:
- pros: having the full list of changes of all releases
- cons: having the full list of changes of all releases ! :-)

Even

Le 17/07/2024 à 09:49, Javier Jimenez Shaw via gdal-dev a écrit :
> I find it strange. There is a long list of news ... but it covers only 
> things that were added exactly in the x.y.0 releases. All the changes 
> that happened in "bugfix releases" (that is x.y.z for z>0) is only on 
> that branch.
> You can compare these two pages
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.8/NEWS.md
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.9/NEWS.md
>
> However most of the changes are done in master and some back-ported to 
> the current release branch. That is, if I do a PR in master today that 
> is not breaking any API, it will be probably backported to 3.9, and 
> released in 3.9.2. It will appear in the news for 3.9... but it will 
> not appear in the long list of news for 3.10 and later releases.
> Is that what is happening? If yes, do we want to change that?
>
> Javier
>
> On Tue, 16 Jul 2024 at 11:12, Laurențiu Nicola <lnicola at dend.ro> wrote:
>
>     Try https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/release/3.9/NEWS.md, I
>     think the patch release changes either get folded into the next
>     minor changelogs or don't get included at all. But the release
>     branch always has the full set of changes.
>
>     Laurentiu
>
>     On Tue, Jul 16, 2024, at 12:09, Javier Jimenez Shaw via gdal-dev
>     wrote:
>>     Hi
>>
>>     I noticed that https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/blob/master/NEWS.md
>>     is telling about 3.9.0, while the last release is 3.9.1
>>
>>     Is that intentional?
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>     Javier
>>
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