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 1RJ7in-0000zj-DX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:57:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6467421C081; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:56:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vx0-f181.google.com (mail-vx0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C962521C035 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 17:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcbfk14 with SMTP id fk14so2645165vcb.40 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:56:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=l2Y1b6OIB14T+3vb09rt49OEuMMuIqmPnBKbMaNkr+g=; b=TbsmeWLJWKXCUJBGwT9Ruxf6kTIRIkdhWXC+FLie4ASYilqXQbTEDtT/6T/9LiA5bK Ui6DWolf26gUnVI5PQJdKaGscrpWI7H1XdCykJj1TeV5iszNSbP7ldyiMtWKdvbcHTsX gi919Ktuf+1VOHtUIjiSskfoDiRoiiJtsbZJE= 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 Received: by 10.220.117.67 with SMTP id p3mr453841vcq.142.1319651775043; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:56:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.155.73 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:56:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20111026193356.058efef7@neptune.home> References: <20111026170212.GD843@gentoo.org> <20111026193356.058efef7@neptune.home> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:56:15 +1300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Council] ChangeLog generation within Gentoo From: Kent Fredric To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=485b3961869e47599d04b0375fe5 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2802abc6088ef550145c7781946c8c88 --485b3961869e47599d04b0375fe5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 27 October 2011 06:33, Bruno wrote: > > Is there some guideline about old entries in the ChangeLog? > > Over the past months ChangeLogs represent a big part of the tree, some > of them being pretty big and going back many changes (hundreds of them) > and years (even for actively maintained ebuilds). > > A lot of the older changelog entries also tend to be less normal, and some long changelogs are so a-typical its virtually impossible to parse them with machine code. I know its probably not a big priority for most people, but if changelogs can retain consistency so that the only part which is inconsistent is the messages themselves. I saw the --echangelog parameter turn up sometime this week and I haven't played with it for fear of subtle inconsistencies with the form produced by the echangelog client. ( I've been hacking on various tools to parse/normalise changelogs myself, but it got overwhelming and I got sidetracked ) -- Kent perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );" http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz --485b3961869e47599d04b0375fe5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 27 October 2011 06:33, Bruno <bonbons67@internet.lu> wrote:

Is there some guideline about old entries in the ChangeLog?

Over the past months ChangeLogs represent a big part of the tree, some
of them being pretty big and going back many changes (hundreds of them)
and years (even for actively maintained ebuilds).


A lot of the olde= r changelog entries also tend to be less normal, and some long changelogs a= re so a-typical its virtually impossible to parse them with machine code.
I know its probably not a big priority for most people, but if changelo= gs can retain consistency so that the only part which is inconsistent is th= e messages themselves.

I saw the --echangelog parameter turn up some= time this week and I haven't played with it for fear of subtle inconsis= tencies with the form produced by the echangelog client.

( I've been hacking on various tools to parse/normalise changelogs = myself, but it got overwhelming and I got sidetracked )
--
Kent

perl -e=C2=A0 "print substr( \"edrgmaM=C2= =A0 SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 = );"

http://ke= nt-fredric.fox.geek.nz
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