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On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote: |
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> El mié, 26-10-2011 a las 19:15 +0200, Fabian Groffen escribió: |
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>> On 26-10-2011 19:11:24 +0200, Michał Górny wrote: |
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>> > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:06:07 +0200 |
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>> > Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > > > 3) one step towards preventing useless ChangeLog entries. |
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>> > > |
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>> > > Also this has been discussed and decided upon by the current and |
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>> > > previous Councils, so also that opinion is unlikely to suddenly |
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>> > > change. |
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>> > I meant the useless ChangeLog messages done by developers on purpose |
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>> > like 'ignore this'. |
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>> Oh, you can just edit them, and "fix" the ChangeLog. |
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>> I hope people will keep on looking for those, and contact the developer |
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>> in question to ask him/her to change his/her behaviour. |
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> Why don't we try to reach a consensus? Maybe we should be allowed to |
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> simply run echangelog (or whatever is used) to generate a message like: |
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> 26 Oct 2011; Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> -pangomm-2.26.3.ebuild |
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> And simply that |
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> Pros: |
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> - People refusing to add a message saying "Drop old" (or similar) could |
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> be happy with this, as no redundant information is required to be |
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> written in ChangeLog. |
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> - Users will still see that a package was removed, as it's indicated |
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> with "-" previous removed file. |
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> What do you think? |
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> From my point of view, if we don't try to reach a consensus, we will |
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> expend time on things to enforce a policy that we could probably expend |
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> on other tasks and, then, maybe all of us should try to stop being so |
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> strict and try to give in a bit (not sure if it's the way in English to |
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> say "ceder" :S) |
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I think that makes a lot of sense. |
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