From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: package.mask
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:24:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090115042441.GA556@hermes> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496B23ED.2060002@allenjb.me.uk>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1007 bytes --]
On 11:05 Mon 12 Jan , AllenJB wrote:
> In my opinion the cvs commit log and the ChangeLog serve 2 different
> purposes. The cvs log is for developers while the ChangeLog is for
> users. While the cvs log will likely just want to explain what change
> was made, the ChangeLog should explain why it was made.
So if you want to know both, you need to look in 2 places? That doesn't
seem very nice to me. Also in a distributed VCS, we'd want to generate
ChangeLogs from the commit logs to avoid all kinds of annoying conflict
resolution and remove redundant information.
> PS. I know about index2.xml - but that doesn't look like it's going to
> be the main front page any time soon at the moment, which is a real
> shame because it has some awesome changes.
I need to write up an announcement for the changes, then Xavier will
flip the switch. Think days not weeks.
--
Thanks,
Donnie
Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
[-- Attachment #2: Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 197 bytes --]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-15 4:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1LLlaP-0002uA-VS@stork.gentoo.org>
2009-01-11 0:56 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in profiles: package.mask Friedrich Oslage
2009-01-11 9:31 ` Benedikt Böhm
2009-01-11 9:53 ` Ryan Hill
2009-01-12 10:42 ` Peter Volkov
2009-01-12 11:05 ` AllenJB
2009-01-12 17:20 ` Alec Warner
2009-01-15 4:24 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2009-01-15 13:47 ` Maciej Mrozowski
2009-01-16 9:10 ` Peter Volkov
[not found] <20130212124555.2BE272171D@flycatcher.gentoo.org>
2013-02-12 12:49 ` Markos Chandras
[not found] <20120522081633.68EF32004B@flycatcher.gentoo.org>
2012-05-22 8:48 ` Samuli Suominen
2012-05-22 8:59 ` Michael Weber
[not found] <20110617131002.8A61620054@flycatcher.gentoo.org>
2011-06-17 13:13 ` Samuli Suominen
[not found] <E1Kkgs8-00036Q-6J@stork.gentoo.org>
2008-09-30 16:34 ` Alexis Ballier
[not found] <E1K9RI1-0004c7-5K@stork.gentoo.org>
2008-06-21 6:43 ` Peter Volkov
2008-06-21 8:56 ` Albert Zeyer
2008-06-21 18:38 ` Robin H. Johnson
2008-06-22 0:57 ` Peter Weller
2008-06-22 9:57 ` Peter Volkov
2008-06-22 13:49 ` Alin Năstac
2008-06-22 14:41 ` Peter Weller
2008-06-23 18:15 ` Alec Warner
[not found] <E1K5lqj-0000UP-Ph@stork.gentoo.org>
2008-06-10 10:38 ` Peter Volkov
[not found] <E1K1kGr-00017l-53@stork.gentoo.org>
2008-05-30 5:34 ` Peter Volkov
[not found] <E1Jxkak-0002zX-R9@stork.gentoo.org>
2008-05-18 15:51 ` Peter Volkov
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20090115042441.GA556@hermes \
--to=dberkholz@gentoo.org \
--cc=gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox