Re: [xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Autogenerate release note summaries

On 17 Apr 2018, at 10:35, Guillaume Delhumeau <guillaume.delhumeau(a)xwiki.com> wrote: +1 since we want to release often, it's better to have a lot of things automated. Additional proposition: automate the blog post

and the twitter message that announce the release.

2018-04-17 10:31 GMT+02:00 Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net>et>: > > >> On 17 Apr 2018, at 10:28, Vincent Massol <vincent(a)massol.net> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I’d like to modify the Release Notes app to autogenerate summaries for > releases. >> >> The idea is to auto generate it based on the headings for user , admins > and devs headers. >> >> For ex, taking the 10.2 release notes it would give: >> >> "For users: New default Color Theme, Figure Macro, Rename/Move > protection and Minor changes do not generate notifications anymore. For > admins: Default Notifications. For Developers: REST API now supports the > use of minor revision for page changes, Translation fallback and Jobs > improvements.” > > To give a comparions this is how we manually summarised it: > > "This release has a fresh look thanks to its new default color theme. A > new Figure macro is available for content creators to add illustrations > along with optional captions. Renaming and moving standard pages is now > discouraged with a warning message that should prevent editors from > breaking XWiki.” > > Ofc, the manual summary is nicer but I think the automated one could be > enough for the user to know the topics and then check the release notes to > understand better what’s in it. > > Context: This is an effort to automate further our release process and to > win some more minutes. > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> >> It's not too bad IMO. >> >> WDYT? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent