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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog generation - pros and cons (council discussion request)
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:15:22
Message-Id: 20110809181501.GH25611@comet.mayo.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog generation - pros and cons (council discussion request) by Fabian Groffen
1 On 19:42 Tue 09 Aug , Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 09-08-2011 12:32:57 -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 > > > > Yeah, that's already on my draft agenda [1]. =) But we should still have
4 > > > > a small set of options to choose from if we do vote to automate, so we
5 > > > > don't sit around for another month or discuss it aimlessly for hours.
6 > > > > Being prepared is what I'm hoping we can do here.
7 > > >
8 > > > Ok, then I suggest simply adding ", don't bother about changes between
9 > > > CVS log and ChangeLog" to both of your options.
10 > >
11 > > I guess I don't understand something here. If we aren't retroactively
12 > > changing existing ChangeLogs, and we're autogenerating things in the
13 > > future, where would these changes come from?
14 >
15 > so you want to retain all existing ChangeLogs?
16
17 Seems like a better idea to me, although it's not originally mine. Old
18 commit messages weren't written with the knowledge or intent that anyone
19 would be reading them, except maybe a dev or two, so we might lose a lot
20 of information.
21
22 If/when we switch to git, we might want to reconsider that, since all
23 the handwritten messages will be old, largely irrelevant history by
24 then.
25
26 --
27 Thanks,
28 Donnie
29
30 Donnie Berkholz
31 Council Member / Sr. Developer
32 Gentoo Linux
33 Blog: http://dberkholz.com

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