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Bug 41274: Improve changelog generation for major releases.

Pier Angelo Vendrame requested to merge pierov/tor-browser-build:bug_41274 into main

Merge Info

Related Issues

Backporting

Timeline

  • Immediate: patchset needed as soon as possible
  • Next Minor Stable Release: patchset that needs to be verified in nightly before backport
  • Eventually: patchset that needs to be verified in alpha before backport
  • No Backport (preferred): patchset for the next major stable

(Optional) Justification

  • Emergency security update: patchset fixes CVEs, 0-days, etc
  • Censorship event: patchset enables censorship circumvention
  • Critical bug-fix: patchset fixes a bug in core-functionality
  • Consistency: patchset which would make development easier if it were in both the alpha and release branches; developer tools, build system changes, etc
    • Let's keep main and maint-14.0 in sync until possible
  • Sponsor required: patchset required for sponsor
  • Other: please explain

Issue Tracking

Review

Request Reviewer

  • Request review from an applications developer depending on modified system:
    • NOTE: if the MR modifies multiple areas, please /cc all the relevant reviewers (since gitlab only allows 1 reviewer)
    • accessibility : henry
    • android : clairehurst, dan
    • build system : boklm
    • extensions : ma1
    • firefox internals (XUL/JS/XPCOM) : jwilde, ma1
    • fonts : pierov
    • frontend (implementation) : henry
    • frontend (review) : donuts, morgan
    • localization : henry, pierov
    • macOS : clairehurst, dan
    • nightly builds : boklm
    • rebases/release-prep : boklm, dan, ma1, morgan, pierov
    • security : jwilde, ma1
    • signing : boklm, morgan
    • updater : pierov
    • windows : jwilde, morgan
    • misc/other : morgan, pierov

Change Description

This script creates a changelog from the various issues linked to the main release preparation issue.

However, for the major releases we need to add issues from all the various alphas and remove the backported ones.

This script implements this feature.

How Tested

I ran this script:

tools/fetch_changelogs.py 41272 --include-from 41144 41186 41215 41219 41225 41238 41241 41249 41257 41262 --exclude-from 41174 41182 41208 41230 41240 41245 41264 41271

and used it to compare the results with Morgan's from !1066 (merged).

Then I also checked that not specifying the new arguments still works:

tools/fetch_changelogs.py 41272

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