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.
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Thanks,
Donnie
Donnie Berkholz
Council Member / Sr. Developer
Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.com
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next prev 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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