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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog generation - pros and cons (council discussion request)
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:40:22
Message-Id: 4E3995EA.9060800@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog generation - pros and cons (council discussion request) by Fabian Groffen
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4 On 08/03/2011 07:30 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 > On 03-08-2011 19:16:15 +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:
6 >>> I listed the questions I think are relevant at the bottom of my
7 >>> mail. I feel you forgot the most important one: should ChangeLogs
8 >>> be auto-generated at all?. Only if yes,
9 >>
10 >> I am a bit confused. I though that the previous council had
11 >> already approved the automated changelog generation[1]
12 >>
13 >> [1]:
14 >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20110608-summary.txt
15 >
16 >>
17 > The above link references the original thread on auto-generation of
18 > ChangeLogs, but it doesn't decide on anything at all about it. The
19 > discussion was mainly focussed on policies and temporary
20 > workarounds.
21 >
22 > The topic as it is presented in the original thread is about what
23 > choices to make when generating, which greatly influences the efforts
24 > it needs to be implemented.
25 >
26 What I meant was that the previous council already approved
27 auto-generation as a concept without providing a permanent solution.
28 Therefore, your implicit question "should ChangeLogs be auto-generated
29 at all?" confused me.
30
31 > I hope it will allow us to perhaps even start auto-generating
32 > ChangeLogs today, that is, right now, and not just only when we
33 > switch to the next VCS.
34 >
35 Agreed. It is completely unacceptable to postpone this even further
36 until git arrives in 20XX ( 12<XX<99 )
37
38 - --
39 Regards,
40 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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