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On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 17:32:03 Matt Turner wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 16:47:29 Dane Smith wrote: |
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> >> To be perfectly blunt, no small part of what caused this current fiasco |
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> >> was this exact attitude. I don't like the current policy either, it's |
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> >> far too wide. However, if you go back and look at why it even *got* to |
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> >> council, it was because you (and others), decided that they weren't |
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> >> going to give any regard to the requests of some of their fellow devs |
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> >> about ChangeLogging removals. |
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> > how is this relevant at all ? i dont find value in these entries, other |
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> > people do. my attitude towards how worthless they are has 0 bearing on |
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> > the policy towards creating it. |
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> Plenty of people have, successfully I though, argued that removal |
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> Changelog entries _are_ useful and have cited relevant situations. |
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> Make a case about how the current policy is stupid in that it requires |
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> changelog entries for trivial whitespace changes or for documenting |
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> removals of packages even when it means the changelog is deleted as |
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> well, but for god sake, stop the nonsense about documenting version |
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> removals being useless. |
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that wasnt my point, although it is a good one. the idea that policy exists |
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because i disagree with others is bunk. whether it be people complaining to |
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other devs to do XYZ or the council makes it official XYZ, there is still a |
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policy XYZ. |
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-mike |