From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5573 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Jun 2003 20:56:12 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 2684 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2003 20:56:11 -0000 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 16:56:05 -0400 From: Jon Portnoy To: Paul de Vrieze Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org, gentoo-core@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030627205605.GA1383@cerberus.oppresses.us> References: <200306272248.38169.pauldv@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200306272248.38169.pauldv@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] IMPORTANT: The proposal for the metadata.xml file X-Archives-Salt: 23164669-2c44-4bb5-a1e5-9541888c7011 X-Archives-Hash: 0fd8a619cd5753efef960b534d3cf8bb On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 10:48:30PM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: Content-Description: signed data Content-Description: body text > [snip] > > - The changelog. This probably will be a topic of debate. Initial > implementation is not necessary for the herds system to function. The > current changelog format though has some problems as the confusion about the > format some months ago showed. With including the changelog into XML many of > those issues could be resolved. It also would offer possibilities like > querying user contributions or things like that. > > If it is decided to include the changelog into the metadata.xml file, > echangelog should be changed accordingly. We further need a conversion tool > in both directions. That should not be too difficult though. > I am not in favor of XML changelogs. I enjoy being able to easily read a changelog without the help of external tools; I believe it is much more convienent to have plaintext changelogs. -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list