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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:57:54
Message-Id: 1304157425.6896.7.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs by "Petteri Räty"
1 El sáb, 30-04-2011 a las 11:46 +0300, Petteri Räty escribió:
2 > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.html
3 >
4 > There doesn't seem to be a common opinion on what the policy for
5 > ChangeLog entries is. See:
6 >
7 > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f829da2375f1ceab766a800913cc4998.xml
8 >
9 > I propose a simple new text: "Every commit should have an entry in
10 > ChangeLog." If we eventually autogenerate them from git logs this would
11 > happen any way (unless some kind of filtering system is in the middle)
12 > so we could already start now. I think it's better to have more than
13 > less information available to users.
14 >
15 > Regards,
16 > Petteri
17 >
18
19 I don't have a strong opinion about what option is the one I think the
20 best but, either way, could
21 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=2&chap=5#doc_chap8 be updated also with the final decision? That is the doc I periodically review to remember exact steps when cleaning old packages.
22
23 Thanks a lot

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