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 1QGhol-00018i-OE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 02 May 2011 01:20:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3A7551C0DD; Mon, 2 May 2011 01:20:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 058C91C0D5 for ; Mon, 2 May 2011 01:20:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so5382883wyi.40 for ; Sun, 01 May 2011 18:20:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=yjpVCytS0xaqRtSRh50rpYNVUIBtL9DjNoyTfocfDOw=; b=ojEtRvSmMQep8cU8LSOWhW+uGAuMfYBnazU3wgOoN2M4F5oXQhOViBbh8QC0UodLIC KvIo4LKeEtJtUANase0N6u89R2amafBwwpCgWNZmwWqELj5HVbJUvX26svH9WQpgXmfS BZnkbmHSyAIg287DGasUXIsnt7R15meKUGvtw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=MPMuchqeLzhGv79YxMe8GmCEP30kDcIQVGCZaOCTYp6TayCmIw5j2IzKi+AgGsSM5c qnZfy9tFf4mJ6kAQFs8HoDx+Ny6WVv+PczagVgeTCmk14xxY0i3N+kPTqIFeAmPCpugr BOEz2iXqIwiy04aajpeVT+9CqmDc0VTtdin2g= Received: by 10.216.209.212 with SMTP id s62mr4501559weo.67.1304299221142; Sun, 01 May 2011 18:20:21 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.216.187.85 with HTTP; Sun, 1 May 2011 18:20:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <19901.62761.450007.418544@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <4DBBCC6D.7080504@gentoo.org> <20110501100017.GE24801@gentoo.org> <20110501210831.GA2816@Eternity.halls.manchester.ac.uk> <19901.62761.450007.418544@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 06:50:01 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: UaZG_HW0KGzmS7ZV4GXGLLDvBVE Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0780bebe43b0c9a40d520b44f24d3a9b On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Sun, 1 May 2011, Markos Chandras wrote: > >> Since most ( if not all ) of us use the same message on the >> Changelog and on the commit log, it probably worth the effort of >> having the rsync servers create the Changelogs before populate the >> portage tree. > > A separate ChangeLog has the advantage that entries for trivial > changes can be omitted. Most people wouldn't want to read entries > about comment changes, for example. Also entries can be edited, which > is not possible if the ChangeLog is generated from commit messages. > Trivial commit messages can be omitted from the final ChangeLog very easily. We just need to decide on a token to add to the commit message =E2=80=94 either [trivial] in the subject, or #trivial in the body, or simi= lar I don't get why someone would want to edit ChangeLogs. Could you list some use-cases besides editing of typos? --=20 ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla