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 <gentoo-dev+bounces-40619-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1NzaCT-0006NT-9g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:42:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E360E0AF4; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:42:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com (mail-pw0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D0C9E0A62 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 18:41:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwj10 with SMTP id 10so1158473pwj.40 for <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:41:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:received:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=vuIPXKcWJiaabPs0tRg44koeiScvbshzQLiUEAY+MeA=; b=RRUSNaRg0u7SMIKfxx+brGYtdshYFcXDjExbh7YE8XOmlf7g+EFgwnQeMC2ip98TjB B7VjtouuTBNYkiDkNrv2GZ73OR10cMcAdn9TGXHuojTuTtAXyKxN4+jpp0HQUhVBjnr2 h3dsYbzofTXlD29dgiIa/NOsPpFxGeng0hvGA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; 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; b=UyGfatmNfpA5dbbM+ODEEPsSO25NFo+nQ3hhuC2wlp33dY2ePXgUX7xV2dOI0+fd2Z Xb/DZQLzJXWvfA2gG4RsukHxQGal9qt1Ajyl8JQT7gD+clWM2KP2uyBXKTHtTyFIQ3H9 E3AEt0QlFuoST/E4BQiWuELgOkWOM4Y2pg8L8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> 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 10.141.48.2 with HTTP; Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:41:49 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201004071954.11243.hwoarang@gentoo.org> References: <y2h8b4c83ad1004051913je48d03eat3af5f26b7500428f@mail.gmail.com> <201004071954.11243.hwoarang@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 00:11:49 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 48807bb7fa8175ab Received: by 10.140.87.23 with SMTP id k23mr7850133rvb.108.1270665709816; Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:41:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <t2j8b4c83ad1004071141pc0653f4k9993a8a7b8b75fa5@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [git migration] The problem of ChangeLog generation From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 7967361e-7be9-4d4b-ab82-09cd76eba9e3 X-Archives-Hash: c78c4c53697344e5b8e52436aba2420f On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 06 April 2010 05:13:02 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > Just a question: > > Why do we even need to care about ChangeLog files? Can't we just use the git > commit message to generate logs? E.g run a script on server side which will > read the whole git shortlog and generate a changelog every $timeframe? > You seem to have missed the gist of the situation. I'm quoting it here again to highlight it: * It makes zero sense to manually manage ChangeLogs in git[1] [snip] * Proposed is to generate ChangeLogs from git commits on the rsync server side when metadata generation is done - Scripts to do this already exist[1] [snip] 1. http://live.gnome.org/Git/ChangeLog -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team