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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:05:01
Message-Id: 4E84A50A.2040008@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs by Fabian Groffen
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4 On 09/28/11 18:37, Fabian Groffen wrote:
5 > On 16-09-2011 17:08:01 +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
6 >> Council decided to push back to ML the remaining bullet point
7 >> about ChangeLog generation[1]
8 >
9 > I propose instead that the council votes on NOT auto-generating
10 > ChangeLogs, but instead asks the Portage team to implement updating
11 > the ChangeLog file as part of repoman commit when there are files
12 > modified (includes removal) excluding the ChangeLog file itself.
13 >
14 We voted on autogeneration but not on how to implement it. This
15 heavily depends on whether we want to edit changelogs or not. And
16 since the majority seems to want to edit changelogs then the right
17 thing to do it o generate them client side etc etc
18
19 > This solves most problems raised by council members, as well as
20 > others on the various threads on this topic. - The file can be
21 > edited (council intentional vote) - All existing information is
22 > retained (council vote) - Repoman updates ChangeLog so no filtering
23 > voodoo (council vote) - Works with AnyVCS and branches* - Needs no
24 > changes regarding Manifests, since ChangeLog is just in AnyVCS,
25 > known to repoman during commit
26 >
27 Yeah Agreed
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29 - --
30 Regards,
31 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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