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 1QG63P-0001dc-PU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:01:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 51D8B1C0A3; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:01:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 496501C00F for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:00:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [83.146.207.236] (dyn-207-236-dsl.vsp.fi [83.146.207.236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: ssuominen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2EC5F1B402B for ; Sat, 30 Apr 2011 09:00:51 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4DBBD02B.3060909@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2011 12:02:35 +0300 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110426 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.9 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs References: <4DBBCC6D.7080504@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4DBBCC6D.7080504@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: eaefa325b31360324d0fe53d0b9071e6 On 04/30/2011 11:46 AM, Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: > http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/misc-files/changelog/index.h= tml >=20 > There doesn't seem to be a common opinion on what the policy for > ChangeLog entries is. See: >=20 > http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_f829da2375f1ceab766a800913cc4= 998.xml >=20 > I propose a simple new text: "Every commit should have an entry in > ChangeLog." If we eventually autogenerate them from git logs this would > happen any way (unless some kind of filtering system is in the middle) > so we could already start now. I think it's better to have more than > less information available to users. >=20 > Regards, > Petteri >=20 "Every new file, and modification to existing file should have an entry in ChangeLog." to skip the proper ChangeLog-less removals.