Talk:Releases

Tips for maintaining release changelogs

Hiya,

If any of you guys are looking to volunteer at maintain a condensed changelog then may I suggest that you utilize the XBMC article on Wikipedia and/or XBMC's own Wiki here on wiki.xbmc.org

XBMC condensed changelog is available on Wikipedia today as release history listed under the Releases section (click [expand] to see the list):

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC#Releases

Most of that information has been copied the Changelog (for a full changelog) and Releases (for condensed changelogs history) articles on wiki.xbmc.org or vice verse:

• http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Releases
• http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_v12_%28Frodo%29_changelog
• http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_v11_%28Eden%29_changelog

Before the changelogs wiki.xbmc.org was listed per point release:

• http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Category:Point_releases
• http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_9.04_point_release

Best source today is the closed pull requests, and you also have all non-pull repository checkins under Timeline on XBMC's Trac site:

• https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/milestones?state=closed
• http://trac.xbmc.org/timeline

There used to be a condensed changelog available as Roadmap on XBMC's Trac but that has not been maintained for a long time:

• http://trac.xbmc.org/roadmap
• http://trac.xbmc.org/milestone/Future%20/%20Pending
• http://trac.xbmc.org/milestone/11.0
• http://trac.xbmc.org/milestone/10.0

Some more information on the new Frodo features also look to be available in the xbmc.org wiki today, and hopefully this will become a tradition to follow in future releases as well:

• http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Category:Frodo_feature

Personally I think it is uninteresting to keep a condensed changelog for each nightly or even alpha releases, as the blog posts on xbmc.org work better for those.

Regards // Gamester17 13:16, 15 November 2012 (EST)