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From: Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 21:25:02
Message-Id: 1304371462.860.2.camel@keitaro
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs by "Petteri Räty"
1 Le samedi 30 avril 2011 à 11:46 +0300, Petteri Räty a écrit :
2 > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html
3 >
4 > There doesn't seem to be a common opinion on what the policy for
5 > ChangeLog entries is. See:
6 >
7 > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f829da2375f1ceab766a800913cc4998.xml
8 >
9 > I propose a simple new text: "Every commit should have an entry in
10 > ChangeLog." 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. I think it's better to have more than
13 > less information available to users.
14 >
15 > Regards,
16 > Petteri
17 >
18
19 As in any other open source project, history (even of removed files)
20 matters just as much as the outcome. Please make it a policy to always
21 have a ChangeLog entry for any changes.
22
23 --
24 Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o>
25 Gentoo

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