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 1R5lZb-0005bw-In for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:40:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A62321C0A6; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5434821C051 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:39:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (24-179-244-217.dhcp.roch.mn.charter.com [24.179.244.217]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dberkholz) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B8E3D1B4001 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 21:39:55 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:39:52 -0500 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs Message-ID: <20110919213952.GB5536@comet.mayo.edu> References: <4E735841.9070209@gentoo.org> <4E73C08B.9030801@gentoo.org> <4E745B01.9040805@gentoo.org> <20110919132655.GA1168@gentoo.org> <4E774753.7020303@gentoo.org> <20110919142734.GB1168@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110919142734.GB1168@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 47e71144a27b3ea33652fe746880c1aa --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > messages. > [/quote from [1]] >=20 > An additional advantage of keeping the file is that we can easily fix=20 > all entries that people wrote/committed ugly and helpless messages=20 > for, like "^" and so on. After autogenerated ChangeLogs have existed for long enough that hardly=20 anyone will need to see handwritten messages anymore (since they'll be=20 old and stale, I fully intend to switch my vote to supporting complete=20 autogen. --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk53tqgACgkQXVaO67S1rttGUgCg234Ddx670eyYfppf6n012irL s2IAnikm7+J0FrvrSJpjVTTHcKqPwImL =O9Cq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rS8CxjVDS/+yyDmU--