Re: [gentoo-dev] On the usefulness of eclass changelog

[Samuli Suominen]

On 31/10/12 17:39, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:35:41 -0400
> Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
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>> On 31/10/12 11:26 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
>>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:39:44 -0600 Ryan Hill
>>> <dirtyepic@g.o> wrote: [...]
>>>>> The file is pointless if not everyone is using it. I've
>>>>> offered to remove the file before, and I'm reoffering to do so
>>>>> now.
>>>>
>>>> It's pointy enough for most uses.  Let's keep it that way.
>>>
>>> I would like to know what are those uses. Here are my thoughts
>>> about changelogs:
>>>
>>> We have cvs logs, cvsweb, etc. So what is the value added from
>>> changelogs? Well, those logs are per-file as far as I know, and
>>> since a new version of a package means a new .ebuild file, keeping
>>> track of changes to packages is painful without a changelog which
>>> is global to the whole package. Even if we have all the needed
>>> information in the cvs log, changelogs for packages are definitely
>>> useful. Now for eclasses the situation is different: I want to
>>> know what has recently changed in foo.eclass, what is the fastest
>>> way? Search through a changelog file with dozens of absolutely
>>> unrelated information, or run cvs log/go to sources.gentoo.org ? I
>>> tend to do the latter and find eclass changelogs completely
>>> useless.
>>>
>>
>> Cool, you do, that's great.  This doesn't mean others don't use a
>> different process tho, and since it *IS* there and is *SUPPOSED* to be
>> filled, and it really doesn't hurt to run 'echangelog "${msg}" && cvs
>> ci -m "${msg}"' , why not do it?
>
> so that others are not encouraged to work sub-optimally :)
>

eclass/ handling should go to repoman and the automated ChangeLog 
process, should be rather straight forward for knowing person.