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On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:39:52 -0500 |
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Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 16:27 Mon 19 Sep , Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> > [quote from [1]] |
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> > - Vote: Retroactively change existing entries, yes or no. |
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> > - We will append to changelogs and retain all existing |
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> > changelog messages. |
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> > [/quote from [1]] |
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> > |
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> > An additional advantage of keeping the file is that we can easily |
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> > fix all entries that people wrote/committed ugly and helpless |
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> > messages for, like "^" and so on. |
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> |
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> After autogenerated ChangeLogs have existed for long enough that |
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> hardly anyone will need to see handwritten messages anymore (since |
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> they'll be old and stale, I fully intend to switch my vote to |
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> supporting complete autogen. |
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To see that, devs should be motivated not to intentionally write cruft |
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into commit messages and/or edit ChangeLogs. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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