On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 18:55, Marius Mauch wrote:
> I'm not completely opposed to XML although I see little use here, but I
> see the big show stopper: Transition. We have a live tree as well as a
> dozen tools (estimated) using the Changelogs, some of them aren't even
> under our control (gentoo-portage.com and porthole are popular
> examples). How do you plan to change the format in such an environment?
> Without an answer to that question the whole issue is academic.

Use the -release trees...  "For 2005.0, we've decided to switch to an
XML-based ChangeLog system.  The -current tree will continue to have
both styles of ChangeLogs, with the plain-text ChangeLog being
depracated, until 2005.1 is released, at which time the plain-text
ChangeLog will be dropped from the -current tree in favor of the new
XML-based format."

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer
Gentoo Linux

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