Changelog quality

[Alan Griffiths]

On 06/06/14 15:45, Cemil Azizoglu wrote:
> There is a discussion going on on ubuntu-phone about this. Having gone
> through the release process where I've had to make sure the changelog
> is accurate, I think it's a good time to discuss this within the team.
>
> Currently, we seem to complete the changelog when we release, which
> makes it difficult to come up with an accurate picture of what went
> into the release (unless you're Daniel, blessed with the
> attention-to-detail gene). I propose some ideas here, some of which
> are requested by the CI team:
>
> 1- Committer updates the changelog (as part of the same commit)

Yeah, get Tarmac to do it! ;)

If you really mean "proposer" then the problem is that all concurrent
MPs will be updating the file at the same point and that will quickly
lead to bzr merge conflicts.