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On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:46:30 +0200 |
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"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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> Dear all, |
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> two small suggestions regarding ChangeLogs: |
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> 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? |
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> In my personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical reasons... Should we still start one? |
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> 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a certain size (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) |
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> the file is "rotated" similar to /var/log logfiles. I.e. the current file is renamed with a date extension and a |
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> new file is started. This has the benefit that the archived file is static and will never be retransmitted |
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> by rsync. |
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I like both suggestions. Maybe we could split by year? That way the old |
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non-conforming entries would just go into the oldest log. Delaying rotation |
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by one year (ie. the first entry in 2012 would cause entries in 2010 to be |
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split off) would prevent getting a bunch of empty changelogs Jan 1st. |
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fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense |
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toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime |
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