[PATCH weston 1/2] Start a NEWS file

[Yong Bakos]

Hi Pekka,

> On Dec 1, 2016, at 3:54 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>
> 
> We should probably have a change log in the tree to list the changes
> that end users (of weston, libweston, libweston-desktop, the apps, etc.)
> might be interested in. Particularly we can list changes to e.g. command
> line options, config file options and such which might require people to
> change their configs.
> 
> All the earlier releases I just punted with a link to the list of
> release notes. I skimmed through all the changes since 1.12.0 was
> released and wrote them down to give an example of what we might list
> here. I probably missed something, too.
> 
> The heading is "The Next Release" because when we cut a release, we
> don't know what version the next release will be. Right now we do know
> it will be 2.0.0, but in general we don't know.
> 
> When doing a release, I would expect one to just add a new heading with
> the release number, leaving "The Next Release" section empty again.
> 
> Cc: Bryce Harrington <bryce at osg.samsung.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>

I ACK the series, but some suggestions below. Let's set a precedent for
the format. Some interesting ideas here:

http://keepachangelog.com/en/0.3.0/
https://github.com/olivierlacan/keep-a-changelog/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

If I'm being to formal about this just ignore me. :)

> ---
> NEWS | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 NEWS
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..368cf71
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
> +The Next Release
> +================

How about "Unreleased". Perhaps some of these features listed won't
actually make it, for one reason or another, in the actual release.

> +
> +* libweston: add "move without scaling" animation type
> +* Support desktop-shell panel on the left, right and bottom
> +* xdg-shell-v6 support in the Wayland backend (i.e. nested libweston)
> +* Support WL_SHM_FORMAT_YUYV
> +* A Weston configuration option to allow starting without input devices
> +* XKB compose key support in the demo clients
> +* Support WL_SHM_FORMAT_NV12
> +* Support WL_SHM_FORMAT_YUV420
> +* Support DRM_FORMAT_YUV444
> +* Changed API for output configuration in libweston
> +
> +
> +Older and stable releases, including 1.12.0

Let's separate this into 1.12.0 with a date, and then another
header for the older stuff. That way we have a precedent for the
release version/date header and the features list. eg:

1.12.0 - 2016-09-20
===================

* feature list item to set some precedent
* and another


Older Releases
==============

See the release notes at https://wayland.freedesktop.org/releases.html


> +===========================================
> +
> +See the release notes at
> +https://wayland.freedesktop.org/releases.html
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