From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: standardized backwards incompatibility tag for commits |
Date: | 2017-03-28 02:51:13 |
Message-ID: | 20170328025113.GB20361@momjian.us |
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On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 04:15:39PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> > Seems like it'd be good to standardize how we're declaring that a commit
> > contains backwards incompatible changes. I've seen
> > - 'BACKWARDS INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE'
> > - 'BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY'
> > - a lot of free-flow text annotations like "as a
> > backward-incompatibility", "This makes a backwards-incompatible change"
>
> > Especially the latter are easy to miss when looking through the commit
> > log and I'd bet some get missed when generating the release notes.
>
> Bruce might have a different opinion, but for my own part I do not think
> it would make any difference in creating the release notes. The important
> thing is that the information be there in the log entry, not exactly how
> it's spelled.
Yes, it doesn't matter as long as it is stated somehow. I don't know of
any missing cases due to text differences.
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