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On 10/31/2011 05:45 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: |
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> On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:46:30 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" |
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> <dilfridge@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Dear all, |
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>> two small suggestions regarding ChangeLogs: |
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>> 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? In my |
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>> personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical |
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>> reasons... Should we still start one? |
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>> 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a |
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>> certain size (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) the file is "rotated" |
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>> similar to /var/log logfiles. I.e. the current file is renamed |
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>> with a date extension and a new file is started. This has the |
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>> benefit that the archived file is static and will never be |
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>> retransmitted by rsync. |
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> I like both suggestions. Maybe we could split by year? That way |
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> the old non-conforming entries would just go into the oldest log. |
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> Delaying rotation by one year (ie. the first entry in 2012 would |
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> cause entries in 2010 to be split off) would prevent getting a |
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> bunch of empty changelogs Jan 1st. |
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There is always the problem with abandoned (but working) packages |
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which may have no commits in > 2 years. We'll end up with empty |
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ChangeLogs. |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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