[ros-users] [Ros-developers] Proposal to change Changelist location into stack

[Armin Hornung]

On 2013-03-08 09:53, Adolfo Rodríguez Tsouroukdissian wrote:
> I'm missing how to retrieve the complete version/date history in a 
> single place [a]. Other than that, upvote
>
> +1

The same here. I strongly suggest adding the release date to the 
version, then I'm also for +1.

It does not have to be mandatory, but should be suggested as "good 
style" in the REP. The previous argument against it was that it can be 
easily retrieved from the source repo - well, the same is true of a 
changelog ;)
Typical users probably won't go through the hassle of finding the source 
repository, then locating the proper release tag, then looking at the 
commits to just find out which version was released when and how up to 
date it is.

When looking at a few released stack, you'll see that it is common to 
mention the date in them, that should not be removed:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/navigation/ChangeList/1.8
http://www.ros.org/wiki/ros_comm/ChangeList/1.8
http://www.ros.org/wiki/geometry/ChangeList/1.6

The date also helps to establish a chronological order. When backporting 
fixes to past release branches, this is no longer reflected by the 
version numbers:
http://www.ros.org/wiki/octomap_mapping/ChangeList


- Armin

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Armin Hornung
Humanoid Robots Lab, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Contact: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~hornunga