From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RJDCF-00016G-RV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:47:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6419121C38A; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:47:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7842921C044 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:47:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F285C1B4014 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:47:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -5.367 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.367 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.663, BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.504] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id yoQedAf3-RSe for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:47:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46A271B4025 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 23:47:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJDBV-0000os-1O for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:47:01 +0200 Received: from 71-17-69-121.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca ([71.17.69.121]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:47:00 +0200 Received: from dirtyepic by 71-17-69-121.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:47:00 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Ryan Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [Council] ChangeLog generation within Gentoo Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:56:36 -0600 Message-ID: <20111026175636.79b66e26@gentoo.org> References: <20111026170212.GD843@gentoo.org> <20111026193356.058efef7@neptune.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/FFxD.wOlbzaMHnEgyyb26dY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 71-17-69-121.yktn.hsdb.sasknet.sk.ca X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: dfc806903d2066afeb7fefe7215f34bf --Sig_/FFxD.wOlbzaMHnEgyyb26dY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:33:56 +0200 Bruno wrote: > Is there some guideline about old entries in the ChangeLog? >=20 > Over the past months ChangeLogs represent a big part of the tree, some > of them being pretty big and going back many changes (hundreds of them) > and years (even for actively maintained ebuilds). >=20 > In order to not bloat the tree I would like to see old entries purged > when there are more than 25-50 of them, especially if they refer to > ebuilds gone since more than 3-6 months. > Someone in need for long gone ebuild would have to look at VCS anyhow, so > looking at ChangeLog/history over there would seem logical. No, it's a pain in the ass to have to go pull up that info through cvs and impossible when you're offline. --=20 fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime @ gentoo.org EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 06= 62 --Sig_/FFxD.wOlbzaMHnEgyyb26dY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk6onjoACgkQiqiDRvmkBmLVVACfeItuwH7vCmx78F2O5m7HKnLA VWoAoPFINuRuy+2SZxv+QTU8eAYylrSO =7XHt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/FFxD.wOlbzaMHnEgyyb26dY--