doc: Add a couple of handy commands to get some info for release notes

Signed-off-by: Donatas Abraitis <donatas@opensourcerouting.org>
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Donatas Abraitis 2022-03-04 09:46:25 +02:00
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@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ Stage 3 - Publish
.. code-block:: console
cp <old-version>.md <version>.md
cp content/release/<old-version>.md content/release/<new-version>.md
Paste the GitHub release announcement text into this document, and **remove
line breaks**. In other words, this::
@ -220,6 +220,16 @@ Stage 3 - Publish
This is very important otherwise the announcement will be unreadable on the
website.
To get the number of commiters and commits, here is a couple of handy commands:
.. code-block:: console
# The number of commits
% git log --oneline --no-merges base_8.2...base_8.1 | wc -l
# The number of commiters
% git shortlog --summary --no-merges base_8.2...base_8.1 | wc -l
Make sure to add a link to the GitHub releases page at the top.
Once finished, manually add a new entry into ``index.html`` to link to this