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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:58:15
Message-Id: 20110920065702.GL1168@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs by "Michał Górny"
1 On 19-09-2011 23:46:48 +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:39:52 -0500
3 > Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
4 > > After autogenerated ChangeLogs have existed for long enough that
5 > > hardly anyone will need to see handwritten messages anymore (since
6 > > they'll be old and stale, I fully intend to switch my vote to
7 > > supporting complete autogen.
8 >
9 > To see that, devs should be motivated not to intentionally write cruft
10 > into commit messages and/or edit ChangeLogs.
11
12 Also, if you don't force this situation (autogenerate ChangeLogs), you
13 never get to the point where "hardly anyone will need to see handwritten
14 messages anymore".
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18 Fabian Groffen
19 Gentoo on a different level

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