Re: [gentoo-dev] Revisiting GLEP 19

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 20:24, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > Wouldn't a new file called ChangeLog.xml solve this? If it exists, use
> > it. If not, default to the old plain-text ChangeLog.
> 
> Not really. 
> How do you make sure a dev adds new entries the XML version if it
> exists? (in the case of multiple/no maintainers or arch maintainers)
> Tools would have to merge the logs internally to be useful.
> Supporting both formats will be a real PITA.

You design your layout for the new ChangeLog.xml, extend echangelog to
support the new style, then add it to gentoolkit-dev and bump.  As
people start using it, it outputs *both* style ChangeLog files, until
such time that we've gone through and cleaned up the tree (or a set
deadline, whatever we decide), then you remove the "old" style
functionality from the tool.  Now it only outputs the new XML
ChangeLog.xml and it's all done.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering QA Manager/Games Developer
Gentoo Linux

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