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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:40:19
Message-Id: 20110919213952.GB5536@comet.mayo.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs by Fabian Groffen
1 On 16:27 Mon 19 Sep , Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > [quote from [1]]
3 > - Vote: Retroactively change existing entries, yes or no.
4 > - We will append to changelogs and retain all existing changelog
5 > messages.
6 > [/quote from [1]]
7 >
8 > An additional advantage of keeping the file is that we can easily fix
9 > all entries that people wrote/committed ugly and helpless messages
10 > for, like "^" and so on.
11
12 After autogenerated ChangeLogs have existed for long enough that hardly
13 anyone will need to see handwritten messages anymore (since they'll be
14 old and stale, I fully intend to switch my vote to supporting complete
15 autogen.
16
17 --
18 Thanks,
19 Donnie
20
21 Donnie Berkholz
22 Council Member / Sr. Developer
23 Gentoo Linux
24 Blog: http://dberkholz.com

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Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>