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 1RJ7pN-0002Aw-Vx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:03:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 662F021C242; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD8EE21C246 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:02:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzv3 with SMTP id zv3so1818810bkb.40 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:02:13 -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:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=T9nVOACXzNSBaIPGV9Mk8A1n3S7mSRVZbWWY7hT6zTE=; b=mxFeNCAZZf/Z4EJ3f7L4qtbb3/MM/R1kNFE6jejClNAPwtI2hd32xwI1oAfM3NiC+/ VuD2L+aRkqkzq7ooRckBhJw9ZcktrrQ+w2Hi7OsRFAUIn4LS1WPrhNl1EKc3BXQWfWNV 6PJpG5ECzbjZDz8S3CM6MWmgBRnTgm56YIj7I= 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 10.204.9.217 with SMTP id m25mr13400712bkm.88.1319652132821; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:02:12 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.65.195 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:02:12 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <20111026170212.GD843@gentoo.org> <20111026193356.058efef7@neptune.home> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:02:12 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: g54h9XuIzo-G6uYTLryEI0lmSos Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [Council] ChangeLog generation within Gentoo From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3c7037438f1b2d3de52de995d984ce5d On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Kent Fredric wrote: > 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. Well, if the desire to trim changelogs is generally agreed upon we could always just count the lines and post a top-100 list or something and let package maintainers go in and truncate things as seems bet to them, with the guideline to keep the file intact up to a year before the last commit. Eventually the files will be cleaned up. Rich