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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:39:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110919213952.GB5536@comet.mayo.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110919142734.GB1168@gentoo.org>

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On 16:27 Mon 19 Sep     , Fabian Groffen wrote:
> [quote from [1]]
>    - Vote: Retroactively change existing entries, yes or no.
>      - We will append to changelogs and retain all existing changelog 
>        messages.
> [/quote from [1]]
> 
> An additional advantage of keeping the file is that we can easily fix 
> all entries that people wrote/committed ugly and helpless messages 
> for, like "^" and so on.

After autogenerated ChangeLogs have existed for long enough that hardly 
anyone will need to see handwritten messages anymore (since they'll be 
old and stale, I fully intend to switch my vote to supporting complete 
autogen.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Council Member / Sr. Developer
Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-19 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-16 14:08 [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs Markos Chandras
2011-09-16 21:32 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-09-17  8:32   ` Markos Chandras
2011-09-17  9:07     ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2011-09-17 14:01       ` Rich Freeman
2011-09-19 13:26         ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-19 13:44           ` Markos Chandras
2011-09-19 14:27             ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-19 16:28               ` Markos Chandras
2011-09-19 16:51                 ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-19 16:58                   ` Markos Chandras
2011-09-19 17:09                     ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-19 17:21                       ` Markos Chandras
2011-09-19 17:53                         ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-19 21:39               ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2011-09-19 21:46                 ` Michał Górny
2011-09-20  6:57                   ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-28 17:37 ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-28 18:24   ` Mr. Aaron W. Swenson
2011-09-29 17:04   ` Markos Chandras

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