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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog generation - pros and cons (council discussion request)
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 20:26:30
Message-Id: 20110809202606.GD1578@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog generation - pros and cons (council discussion request) by Donnie Berkholz
1 On 09-08-2011 15:20:59 -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 > On 20:22 Tue 09 Aug , Fabian Groffen wrote:
3 > > On 09-08-2011 13:15:01 -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
4 > > > If/when we switch to git, we might want to reconsider that, since
5 > > > all the handwritten messages will be old, largely irrelevant history
6 > > > by then.
7 > >
8 > > I don't follow your reasoning here. All messages that are old today,
9 > > are also old when we switch to git.
10 >
11 > Right. But the messages written last week are the ones I'm talking
12 > about. They aren't old yet, but (almost) nobody's gonna care about them
13 > six months from now.
14
15 ok, the starting point was that we can generate ChangeLogs using CVS
16 today, we don't need to wait for git.
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20 Fabian Groffen
21 Gentoo on a different level