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On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 27 October 2011 06:33, Bruno <bonbons67@××××××××.lu> wrote: |
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>> Is there some guideline about old entries in the ChangeLog? |
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>> Over the past months ChangeLogs represent a big part of the tree, some |
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>> of them being pretty big and going back many changes (hundreds of them) |
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>> and years (even for actively maintained ebuilds). |
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> A lot of the older changelog entries also tend to be less normal, and some |
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> long changelogs are so a-typical its virtually impossible to parse them with |
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> machine code. |
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Well, if the desire to trim changelogs is generally agreed upon we |
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could always just count the lines and post a top-100 list or something |
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and let package maintainers go in and truncate things as seems bet to |
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them, with the guideline to keep the file intact up to a year before |
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the last commit. Eventually the files will be cleaned up. |
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Rich |
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