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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:01:31
Message-Id: 4DBBD02B.3060909@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs by "Petteri Räty"
1 On 04/30/2011 11:46 AM, Petteri Räty wrote:
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 "Every new file, and modification to existing file should have an entry
20 in ChangeLog." to skip the proper ChangeLog-less removals.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs Panagiotis Christopoulos <pchrist@g.o>