Re: [gentoo-dev] ChangeLog - Infra Response

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 20:18:07 +0000
"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 08:05:56AM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > >>>>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015, Robin H Johnson wrote:
> > 
> > > 1. Control of the OUTPUT filename for the generated changelog
> > > - the from-git generated changelog will go to 'ChangeLog.git'
> > 
> > > [...]
> > 
> > > Without #1, we have to rename ALL of the old changelogs, otherwise
> > > they will be overwritten by the new ones from Git history.
> > What would be the problem with renaming? IMHO it would be nicer to
> > keep the ChangeLog name for the autogenerated files and rename the
> > ones from CVS. We already have files renamed to ChangeLog-<year>
> > when they became to large, so we could just use ChangeLog-2015 to
> > stay within that scheme.
> In the rsync tree, but NOT the Git tree, we have
> ChangeLog
> ChangeLog-YYYY
> Where YYYY so far goes as far as 2014.
> 
> And 'ChangeLog' files stopped getting updates on August 8th.
> 
> The old ChangeLog files from CVS are explicitly NOT in Git, but
> manually injected during the rsync tree creation.
> 
> If we rename the old ChangeLog files from CVS to ChangeLog-2015, then
> we'll have both 'ChangeLog-2015' and 'ChangeLog' (generated from Git)
> containing 2015 entries. Worse, what happens when we hit 2016? Do we
> merge the old files?

It's not perfectly clean but I don't see any problem here:
ChangeLog-2015 : all ChangeLog from CVS
ChangeLog: autogenerated from git


if/when there is a need to split git changelogs, autogenerated
changelogs will start from say, Jan. 1st 2016, and previous changes
will now be static. Merging CVS2015 and git2015 changelogs is just a
matter of running a script. Or just skip splitting them for 2016, and
start splitting in 2017, so that ChangeLog-2015 is CVS ones,
ChangeLog-2016 is git logs from Aug. 8. 2015 to Dec. 31 2016.

IMHO this is still better than having ChangeLog stopping in 2015 and
ChangeLog.git starting from this date: Having ChangeLog-2015 from CVS
still carries partial information on the timeline.


Alexis.