Does anyone have experience in an automated creation of release notes? We already have automated nightly builds and regression tests of C++ and Python software, but we do not yet create our releases automatically.
If releases are either bug fix releases or feature releases (containing both bug fixes and enhancements), then the former would be the easiest to do: create a list of all the issues resolved between the previous release date and the current date.
For feature releases it is a little more complicated, because we do not have a well structured repository of feature requests yet.
So are there any suggested best practices that will help us create release notes automatically for in particular feature releases?
Module::Install::With(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Module::Install::With(3)
interactive
The "interactive" function tests for an install that has a user present (or at least, one in which it is reasonable for us to present
prompts and other similar types of things).
Returns true if in an interactive environment, or false otherwise.
automated_testing
Are we currently running in an automated testing environment, such as CPAN Testers.
This is primarily a cleaner and more human-readable equivalent of checking $ENV{AUTOMATED_TESTING} yourself, but may be improved in line
with best practices at a later date.
release_testing
Are we currently running in an release testing environment. That is, are we in the process of running in a potential highly-intensive and
high dependency bloat testing process prior to packaging a module for release.
This is primarily a cleaner and more human-readable equivalent of checking $ENV{RELEASE_TESTING} yourself, but may be improved in line with
best practices at a later date.
win32
The "win32" function tests if the Makefile.PL is currently running in a native Microsoft Windows Perl, such as ActivePerl or Strawberry
Perl.
This is primarily a cleaner and more human-readable equivalent of checking "$^O eq 'MSWin32'" yourself, but may be improved in line with
best practices at a later date.
winlike
The "winlike" function tests if the Makefile.PL is currently running in a Microsoft Windows Perl, under either cygwin or a native Win32
Perl.
This is primarily a cleaner and more human-readable equivalent of checking "$^O eq 'MSWin32' or $^O eq 'cygwin'"yourself, but may be
improved in line with best practices at a later date.
SEE ALSO
Module::Install
AUTHORS
Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007 - 2012 Adam Kennedy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.
perl v5.16.3 2012-03-01 Module::Install::With(3)