[swift-dev] Starter project: Convert release notes into something useful

[joe]

Now that the CHANGELOG.md file is in place, I can take a look at the "archeology exercise" bit. The updates to the Xcode release notes for official releases are online (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/releasenotes/DeveloperTools/RN-Xcode/Chapters/Introduction.html), but Radek, if you have the beta release notes handy, those may be useful in creating more granular updates to the changelog.

It won't be too difficult to pull out the sections relevant to Swift from the Xcode release notes, but is that what we want in the CHANGELOG? I want to make sure it's ok to have the duplicated content added, or if the purpose of the CHANGELOG might be somewhat different than Xcode's release notes (at least the sections pertaining the Swift language itself).

> On Dec 6, 2015, at 5:53 AM, Radosław Pietruszewski via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> If someone wants to tackle the “archeology exercise”, those might help :)
> 
> - SwiftInFlux has Xcode 6.1/Swift 1.1 history pretty well preserved: https://github.com/ksm/SwiftInFlux#changed-in-xcode-611 (unfortunately the project died down before Swift 2 came around)
> - I have a copy of almost all Xcode 6—Xcode 7.1 Release Notes I can share privately on request
> 
> — Radek
> 
>> We have this document, which captures some of the evolution of swift over time in the form of release notes:
>> 
>> https://github.com/apple/swift/blob/master/utils/buildbot-release-notes.txt
>> 
>> 
>> We’ve started updating it for behavior changes in Swift 2.2, and think that something like it is important so that when we do a release, we have a way to make sure that sometime important isn’t missed.  Users like to know what’s new :-)
>> 
>> That said, it has two pretty serious problems:
>>  - It is missing content on what happened between Oct 2014 and the start of the Swift 2.2 cycle.
>>  - It is a weird little text file off in an undiscoverable place in the source tree.
>> 
>> Fixing the former problem is a bit of an archeology exercise, the later problem is more of a content/design problem.  Is anyone interested in tackling either of these?
>> 
>> -Chris 
>> 
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