[QGIS-Developer] Changelog for 3.8! ARgh!

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Tim

On 6/23/19 8:37 PM, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi Matthias
>
>> On 21 Jun 2019, at 11:47, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch 
>> <mailto:matthias at opengis.ch>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> On 6/21/19 9:03 AM, Tim Sutton wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>>> On 21 Jun 2019, at 08:50, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch 
>>>> <mailto:matthias at opengis.ch>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I think it would make a lot of sense to integrate the 
>>>> changelog creation directly with labels into pull requests.
>>>>
>>>> Since projecta is also based on markdown this should all play 
>>>> nicely together. And we could even add an (optional) #Changelog 
>>>> section to the pull requests and some other tags to automatically 
>>>> set funder etc. so one could already write the whole changelog 
>>>> entry during the development cycle. That should easily pay back 
>>>> with all the volunteer time that is saved during the already busy 
>>>> run up time to release!
>>>>
>>>> Resource wise, most the allocated time in the grant proposal is for 
>>>> getting the service up and running and integrating with all the 
>>>> notification hooks. Parsing the content and sending it to another 
>>>> API should be pretty much straightforward. The main question would 
>>>> rather be if creation of new versions can also be automated and how 
>>>> to decide to which version a new feature should be sent (i.e. find 
>>>> out the "current" version). The best match for this would probably 
>>>> be to use github milestones. In the end I would say that this 
>>>> should increase the offer by 20%.
>>>>
>>>> Tim, is everything ready on your end for that?
>>>
>>> So yes we would be happy to pitch in to help here. Admire can help 
>>> more immediately by getting this changelog ready and we can work 
>>> with Anita (Hapsari) to get things in place to support PR githook 
>>> thing-a-me-doodahs. (See my reply to OP)
>>
>> Great! I started with the changelog, but it's not even close to 
>> finished, so whatever Admire gets too on Monday will be appreciated. 
>> And of course whatever others get to meanwhile!
>>
>> Concerning the changelog, I think there are too possibilities:
>>
>>   * Integrate it into the service we are going to set up if the grant 
>> proposal is accepted. This will already have some logic builtin to 
>> cover things like also reacting to labels added after the PR is 
>> merged etc.
>>
>>   * Bypass the grant proposal service and directly hook into the 
>> github webhooks, which I think is what you propose.
>>
>
> Can you share the link again to your proposal?

Sure,

After some fiddling I finally found the link to the proposals again.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VzgLJ-hy2GtcWrAy5geivhDDdXRGJUDcikCWUtXRe9k/edit#heading=h.cuzf1c5o2ciq

Basically the idea is to do pretty much the same thing as the GitHub 
Backporting App (https://github.com/tibdex/backport#goal). The app will 
listen to label changes and state (open/close) changes and open issues 
on the docs repo accordingly, but could very well also call other REST 
APIs upon such events. The result should be a fairly generic and open 
source Github App, that can be installed on any repo and configured via 
a yaml file inside the repo.

Best regards

Matthias


>
> Yes I was leaning towards a generic approach if possible, but let me 
> read your proposal again and see how that fits in…
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>> I think the main advantage of the first one would be that it could be 
>> integrated in a single tool and since we would be working on it 
>> already it would be less effort. The second one would add some value 
>> to projecta if it can be used for other projects too.
>>
>> I'm happy to step back if the second one is preferred.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
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