The organization of the release notes is fine, it is just making the level of effort needed to produce them manageable. This begs for some kind of tooling
There is tools/logparser.c, but it was designed specifically to convert the git log into the format used in the ChangeLog. It is useful for that restricted purpose, but probably does not meet the need here.
Speaking of the ChangeLog: Keep it and maintain it? Or dump it? It doesn't have anything in it that is not in the git log. It is somewhat more compact than the git log, but otherwise offers now value.
Perhaps we should have an attic/ directory to put old things that are no longer maintained but make have some historical value?
