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On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 07:14, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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>> thinking about it a little more, i think this can easily be addressed. |
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>> only auto-generate the ChangeLog file if it doesnt exist in VCS. |
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>> thus the few people who are actually anal about typos (or just think |
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>> they are) can retain their ChangeLogs in the packages they maintain |
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>> and continue to hand update them. for the rest of us, we can |
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>> autogenerate from the VCS logs. |
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> I'm not sure we should really leave that up to individual practice. |
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> Remember that while packages have one or more maintainers, nobody |
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> "owns" a package. |
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the maintainer kind of does own that |
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> If 99% of the tree is ChangeLog-free then will an |
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> arch team remember to run echangelog on the 1% that still have them, |
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> and so on? |
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fair point, although overlays and such wont have changelogs generated |
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automatically, so there is going to be a disconnect. we could have |
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echangelog simply ignore a missing ChangeLog file so that people dont |
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have to change their scripts ... |
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> If typos matter then they matter to everybody, and if they don't then |
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> we should not care. QA in Gentoo should be a consistent experience. |
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while the last sentence is true, the first is not. if a minority of |
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people care about typos, and/or they rarely fix said typos, then the |
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logical answer is that their opinion loses out. it doesnt mean that |
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everyone agrees. |
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-mike |
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