posit-dev / ark

Ark, an R kernel
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Add changelog file #555

Open lionel- opened 2 days ago

lionel- commented 2 days ago

I'd love to start tracking progress for stuff like https://github.com/posit-dev/ark/pull/553

One issue is versioning. Because we need to coordinate with Positron, we're currently releasing quite often with a bumped patch version without any release notes.

I think we could keep doing that but start maintaining a changelog for major and minor releases. WDYT @DavisVaughan?

One question is whether we want to track changes made specifically for Positron (e.g. the data viewer comm). I lean towards no? I'm thinking we'd track changes relevant for:

DavisVaughan commented 2 days ago

I think keeping a running changelog in general is a good idea, and once we get more official about minor/major releases it will become clear which bullet ends up in which section - but for now just a running list of improvements and fixes would go a long way i think

I think I agree regarding what to log