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 1RKnXo-0007Fn-7L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:48:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F17B721C07B; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:48:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B0221C043 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:47:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qadc1 with SMTP id c1so7549599qad.40 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:47:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; 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; bh=JTUj/gdtVQ+dvEXfPScV6wUHdIyOOaCXcAW6w1e5nP8=; b=Pv1JHK/x6UVHh1XtQRAgKUTE+szGTv5d8JLSHXBpPGr9kG5OnXPgQotIzpRzcs0ywF s/PnD6byythXo4POQVWU/VonOEc1PmM7dujbcNqPAEOCyCC7YngXsf+/KmFp5/l0qY3C hRgM9TcChqDMgYT3U+76JfQ7jn/w9H9c9mz4M= Received: by 10.182.69.52 with SMTP id b20mr355202obu.58.1320050873409; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:47:53 -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 10.182.182.40 with HTTP; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:47:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4EAE5ECB.2010207@gentoo.org> References: <201110261946.35058.dilfridge@gentoo.org> <20111030234515.164b4089@gentoo.org> <4EAE5ECB.2010207@gentoo.org> From: Nirbheek Chauhan Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:17:28 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 7wX7TuozPwQI4gKBGKSZPQSWZe0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Old changelogs / eclass dir To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 9c27f249-7cc7-4386-9ff8-616ceb30b14f X-Archives-Hash: c488c930659fb2ce129d9b2d503d0d15 On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > There is always the problem with abandoned (but working) packages > which may have no commits in > 2 years. We'll end up with empty > ChangeLogs. > This is a simple technical problem, the solution of which is to take the "last 6 months" or "last one year" of activity, or the last 50 commits, whichever is more. Or something similar. It's not a fundamental problem with the idea. Note that this defence is not an endorsement of the idea itself. -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team