Re: [gentoo-dev] Council May Summary: Changes to ChangeLog handling

[Michał Górny]

On Mon, 30 May 2011 16:03:42 +0400
Peter Volkov <pva@g.o> wrote:

> В Птн, 20/05/2011 в 13:19 +0300, Mart Raudsepp пишет:
> > On T, 2011-05-17 at 13:32 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote:
> > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20110510-summary.txt
> > >
> > > Please note that you must now update ChangeLog with each commit.
> > > For more information please see the meeting log and the preceding
> > > mailing list thread:
> > >
> > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20110510.txt
> > > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_eaefa325b31360324d0fe53d0b9071e6.xml
>
> So, I just realized that we have to update Changelogs for everything,
> whitespaces and comments included. Even after reading meeting logs I
> still wonder, why council have decided to vote policy change that was
> not supported even by minority of developers? The whole idea after
> human editable ChangeLogs was to avoid whitespace changes and changes
> in comments. In the current state it is possible to generate them on
> rsync servers and avoid this burden.

So we're one step closer to getting rid of the whole separate log
burden and thus closer to clear git migration. And generating
changelogs on rsync servers is possible; egencache is capable of doing
that, though for git only.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny