From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85CD01384B4 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2015 07:22:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30AD321C01F; Tue, 3 Nov 2015 07:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3BE3BE08A8 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2015 07:22:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2a02:8109:a640:180c:5ee0:c5ff:fe8e:77db] (unknown [IPv6:2a02:8109:a640:180c:5ee0:c5ff:fe8e:77db]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: patrick) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E6BD1340751 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2015 07:22:28 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: ChangeLog To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <5636029F.1020304@gentoo.org> <5636FDC6.80500@gmail.com> <5637C0D2.6070708@gmail.com> <20151102200921.72bea3bc@googlemail.com> <5637DB96.9020903@gmail.com> <5637DD6C.8000803@gentoo.org> <56380BED.3000209@gmail.com> From: Patrick Lauer Message-ID: <563860A8.1010201@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 08:22:16 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 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 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 992048e4-cfd8-4d88-b3d6-0097e058859d X-Archives-Hash: 2dd3214bae80c9a43d30967c0fa5dadb On 11/03/2015 02:52 AM, Matt Turner wrote: > > 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? > You keep saying GitHub. Github is not relevant to this discussion. > > Yes, the ChangeLogs stopped being updated because of git. > > The git transition had been 9 years in the making and has massively > improved Gentoo development. Look at the graph of contributions per > month: https://www.openhub.net/p/gentoo Yes, the rate of git commits has gone up since the git switcheroo. But that's not what you wanted to say I think ;) > It was decided that the missing infrastructure for ChangeLogs was not > a sufficient reason to block a hugely important change. > > People care about finishing this, as evidence by this thread. Please > stop complaining. > Apparently my complaining finally re-triggered some action, so sadly this looks like the currently best strategy. Sigh,