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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Old changelogs / eclass dir
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:40:20
Message-Id: 4EAE5ECB.2010207@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Old changelogs / eclass dir by Ryan Hill
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4 On 10/31/2011 05:45 AM, Ryan Hill wrote:
5 > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:46:30 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel"
6 > <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:
7 >
8 >> Dear all,
9 >>
10 >> two small suggestions regarding ChangeLogs:
11 >>
12 >> 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? In my
13 >> personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical
14 >> reasons... Should we still start one?
15 >>
16 >> 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a
17 >> certain size (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) the file is "rotated"
18 >> similar to /var/log logfiles. I.e. the current file is renamed
19 >> with a date extension and a new file is started. This has the
20 >> benefit that the archived file is static and will never be
21 >> retransmitted by rsync.
22 >
23 > I like both suggestions. Maybe we could split by year? That way
24 > the old non-conforming entries would just go into the oldest log.
25 > Delaying rotation by one year (ie. the first entry in 2012 would
26 > cause entries in 2010 to be split off) would prevent getting a
27 > bunch of empty changelogs Jan 1st.
28 >
29 >
30 There is always the problem with abandoned (but working) packages
31 which may have no commits in > 2 years. We'll end up with empty
32 ChangeLogs.
33
34 - --
35 Regards,
36 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Old changelogs / eclass dir Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>
[gentoo-dev] Re: Old changelogs / eclass dir Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>