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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:46:47
Message-Id: 4E774753.7020303@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs by Fabian Groffen
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4 On 09/19/11 16:26, Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 > I would prefer going this route myself. Generate all ChangeLogs
6 > from commit messages only. This is easy to implement (POC is
7 > running for Prefix), but has a little issue with ChangeLog being in
8 > Manifest file. I think we should just omit it, or (better) allow
9 > the Manifest to have multiple signed parts, such that the ebuilds,
10 > dists and files are signed by the committing developer, and the
11 > ChangeLog is signed by the generation process (like snapshots
12 > are).
13 If you generate Changelogs from commit messages then you dont need to
14 place the to $VCS unless you want to edit them ( see below )
15 >
16 > The council has, however, (like Markos' initial mail explained)
17 > decided that ChangeLog entries must be updatable (e.g. corrected)
18 > afterwards.
19 Really? when? There is no decision on this topic yet[1](3rd bullet
20 point). If I am wrong, please point me to the correct source. I
21 thought this discussion is about whether we want to edit them
22 afterwards or not. So unless we decide to edit them, we don't need
23 ChangeLog files
24
25 [1]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20110809-summary.txt
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27 - --
28 Regards,
29 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>