Re: [gentoo-dev] On the usefulness of eclass changelog

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:35:41 -0400
Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org> wrote:

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> On 31/10/12 11:26 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:39:44 -0600 Ryan Hill
> > <dirtyepic@gentoo.org> wrote: [...]
> >>> The file is pointless if not everyone is using it. I've
> >>> offered to remove the file before, and I'm reoffering to do so
> >>> now.
> >> 
> >> It's pointy enough for most uses.  Let's keep it that way.
> > 
> > I would like to know what are those uses. Here are my thoughts 
> > about changelogs:
> > 
> > We have cvs logs, cvsweb, etc. So what is the value added from 
> > changelogs? Well, those logs are per-file as far as I know, and 
> > since a new version of a package means a new .ebuild file, keeping 
> > track of changes to packages is painful without a changelog which 
> > is global to the whole package. Even if we have all the needed 
> > information in the cvs log, changelogs for packages are definitely 
> > useful. Now for eclasses the situation is different: I want to
> > know what has recently changed in foo.eclass, what is the fastest
> > way? Search through a changelog file with dozens of absolutely
> > unrelated information, or run cvs log/go to sources.gentoo.org ? I
> > tend to do the latter and find eclass changelogs completely
> > useless.
> > 
> 
> Cool, you do, that's great.  This doesn't mean others don't use a
> different process tho, and since it *IS* there and is *SUPPOSED* to be
> filled, and it really doesn't hurt to run 'echangelog "${msg}" && cvs
> ci -m "${msg}"' , why not do it?

so that others are not encouraged to work sub-optimally :)