[gentoo-dev] Re: My masterplan for git migration (+ looking for infra to test it)

[Duncan]

Anthony G. Basile posted on Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:43:09 -0400 as excerpted:

> We could just push out the word that ChangeLogs are going away and they
> have to read the git repo.  That might be the easiest solution.  I do
> have users that quote my ChangeLogs though.

As such a user... 

Given the proposed three-level system, dev-git, power-user-git, general-
user-rsync, dumping changelogs in rsync is my preferred solution as 
well.  Given power-user-git access I expect anyone who actually reads 
changelogs will be switching to the power-user-git level in a heartbeat, 
and I can't see the folks remaining on rsync actually caring about 
changelogs, either.  In the one-off case they find themselves needing a 
changelog, they can read the git commit log online.

When the discussion came up previously I was strongly in favor of keeping 
changelogs, because users /don't/ currently have a reasonable 
alternative.  With the proposed three-level system, the power-user git 
repo will be that alternative, and the changelogs can simply go away in 
favor of people actually having access to a full git repo and git log.

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