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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remove eclass/ChangeLog
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 16:30:57
Message-Id: CAGfcS_kOKD5Fr_wiio7XqywT_uKDPEm3Y0_p6SPStxFmGS4K3w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remove eclass/ChangeLog by Samuli Suominen
1 On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
2 > On 05/23/2012 05:36 AM, Ryan Hill wrote:
3 >> One person doesn't do entries.  OMG let's remove it!
4 >>
5 >
6 > absolutely because inconsitency renderess the file useless
7 >
8
9 Well, for now the solution is to enforce following policy.
10
11 For the future, perhaps the policy's time has ended. Sure, Changelogs
12 can be handy, but they are increasingly redundant and scm comments
13 have the potential to be far more useful. By all means require
14 meaningful scm commit comments, but if Changelog files are holding us
15 back either auto-generate them or ditch them.
16
17 And, to add my own to cents to this chain about the only thing worse
18 than failing to directly inherit an eclass dependency is to break the
19 tree fixing the problem on personal initiative. When a dev messes up
20 the solution is to talk to them or if necessary talk to devrel/QA -
21 not to break end-user systems.
22
23 Rich

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remove eclass/ChangeLog "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>