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From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:13:15
Message-Id: 1304165521.27786.27.camel@tablet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs by Samuli Suominen
1 В Сбт, 30/04/2011 в 12:02 +0300, Samuli Suominen пишет:
2 > On 04/30/2011 11:46 AM, Petteri Räty wrote:
3 > > I propose a simple new text: "Every commit should have an entry in
4 > > ChangeLog."
5
6 Nonfunctional commits should not be recored in ChangeLog. Personally I
7 quite frequently add URLs of upstream bug reports in ChangeLog. I don't
8 think this addition should be recorded in ChangeLog.
9
10 > > If we eventually autogenerate them from git logs this would
11 > > happen any way (unless some kind of filtering system is in the middle)
12 > > so we could already start now.
13
14 Without filtering system ChangeLogs are useless. Also I need some way to
15 edit ChangeLogs manually.
16
17 > "Every new file, and modification to existing file should have an entry
18 > in ChangeLog." to skip the proper ChangeLog-less removals.
19
20 Removal is quite functional change so it should be recored.
21
22 --
23 Peter.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs Jeroen Roovers <jer@g.o>