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On 04/30/2011 11:39 PM, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: |
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> On 12:02 Sat 30 Apr , Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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>> "Every new file, and modification to existing file should have an entry |
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>> in ChangeLog." to skip the proper ChangeLog-less removals. |
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> There is something I can't undestand reading all the previous |
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> discussions. You disagree with logging removals only because you don't |
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> like the idea (you think it's useless information) or also because if |
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> this becomes a policy, it will increase more the size of ChangeLogs? You |
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> (and others) would still be negative if the problem with sizes etc. was |
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> solved somehow? |
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No, but because of the quantity of commits[1] as a result of maintaining |
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subset of issues tree wide at once (like libpng, jpeg, libnotify, *kit, |
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u{disks,power}, lcms, fixing missing includes due to toolchain changes, |
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adding some consts, imagine the rest ...) |
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... the time alone if you have to stop on each package to wait for |
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echangelog to get done just doubles the amount of time you have to put |
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into committing them. That's just not worth the effort. |
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So not only they are rather useless, and information you can easily get |
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from sources.gentoo.org, they take your time as well. |