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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [Council] ChangeLog generation within Gentoo
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 03:29:33
Message-Id: pan.2011.10.27.03.28.33@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Council] ChangeLog generation within Gentoo by Fabian Groffen
1 Fabian Groffen posted on Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:00:22 +0200 as excerpted:
2
3 > On 26-10-2011 14:02:12 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
4 >> Well, if the desire to trim changelogs is generally agreed upon we
5 >> could always just count the lines and post a top-100 list or something
6 >> and let package maintainers go in and truncate things as seems bet to
7 >> them, with the guideline to keep the file intact up to a year before
8 >> the last commit. Eventually the files will be cleaned up.
9 >
10 > Don't you think it's much more sensical to remove all entries for
11 > ebuilds that are no longer in the tree then?
12
13 1) Given the irregularity of older entries, that could be difficult to
14 automate, tho it could be done going forward, once a log has been
15 manually trimmed once.
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17 2) I'd argue for keeping upstream version commits and removals, so at
18 minimum, the dates they were in the tree can be tracked. (FWIW, I often
19 find myself checking this information when helping someone try to build
20 something half-modern on a stale distro like CentOS 5, for instance.) It
21 could be argued that this is a reasonably important minimal historical
22 record.
23
24 But all stabilizations, -rX bumps, and changes other than upstream
25 version addition and removal, indeed, removing those entries say three
26 months minimum after the ebuilds are no longer in the tree does make
27 sense. (And as a bonus, such removal would make the historical record
28 above, addition and removal of older upstream versions, far easier to
29 read, since it'd be all that's left for versions already out-of-tree. =:^)
30
31 --
32 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
33 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
34 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman

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