Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ChangeLog

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

hasufell wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 10:54 PM, Dale wrote:
>> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 14:00:18 -0600
>>> Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Rich Freeman wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 1:08 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Then perhaps all this should have been worked out BEFORE switching
>>>>>> to github?
>>>>> We didn't switch to github.
>>>> Then why are people saying to use git to look at the logs?   I don't
>>>> want to use git.
>>> git != github...
>>>
>>>> I liked being able to go to the tree and look at the
>>>> change logs when I needed to which is sometimes often.
>>> I think you have a technology comprehension problem here, rather than a
>>> technology problem. The problem is your workflow, not the tools.
>>>
>> What I understand is this.  The logs since github started being used are
>> no longer updated like they used to be.  I realize that git is a command
>> but it seems that git gets its info from github since the logs are no
>> longer downloaded when I sync the tree.
> No. You should really read some tutorials/introductions on git to
> understand how it works and this ML isn't the place for that. It's not
> like SVN, so you don't even need an internet connection for the tree to
> work (e.g. if you've copied it via USB even). Github is totally
> unrelated here.
>
>


So you are telling me that people using github and the switch that took
place has absolutely nothing to do with the changelogs going dead? 
Before I sent my first message here, I looked at the changelogs for
several packages in the portage tree  that I know for certain have been
updated.  Just as the OP stated in his email, those updates to those
changelogs stopped in August.  That is about the same time this
git/github happened.  While I do believe the git/github change has
helped in a lot of ways, some of us still want our changelogs up to date
so that we can see them and know what is going on, especially if we run
into trouble and need to know what changed and when and need it to fix
things. 

I find it odd that I have a problem, others are having the same
complaint but it is me not wanting to use git/github that is the
problem.  I thought Gentoo was not depending on git/github either. 

Dale

:-)  :-)