[Koha-bugs] [Bug 22890] Add a chronological changelog

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22890

--- Comment #12 from Martin Renvoize <martin.renvoize at ptfs-europe.com> ---
I still think maintaining this inside Bugzilla and pulling it into a
changelog.md file for each release is the way to go... I'd maintain it in a
file with every commit/patchset if we were only supporting one definitive
version/branch of Koha but as we're continually supporting at least 3 versions
in parallel I think ensuring it's properly chronological would be difficult in
commits.. 

An example would be with almost any bug.. it's is the rmaints decision whether
the bug is a required backport and as such the RM doesn't know at the time of
his/her push what version this bug is going to appear in.. as such they would
put it under their version, and when the rmaints backported the rm would then
need to forward port a second patch to get move the change down the changelog
to get the chronology right again.

By maintaining this in bugzilla we already have scripts to add koha version
into the relevant fields at the time of push and also have tools that pull out
the release notes fields for release note built at release.. so we could have a
clear way of getting the chronology correct at release time.

As for the format, the keepachangelog seems great to me.. I wouldn't be against
having two distinct fields in bugzilla.. one for librarian facing release notes
and one for developer-facing notes as they're often rather different use cases.

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