Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs

[Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>]

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On 16-09-2011 17:08:01 +0300, Markos Chandras wrote:
> Council decided to push back to ML the remaining bullet point about
> ChangeLog generation[1]

I propose that the council reconsiders their answers to all of the
questions, in particular the most important one "do we want ChangeLogs
to be auto-generated".

I propose instead that the council votes on NOT auto-generating
ChangeLogs, but instead asks the Portage team to implement updating the
ChangeLog file as part of repoman commit when there are files modified
(includes removal) excluding the ChangeLog file itself.

This solves most problems raised by council members, as well as others on
the various threads on this topic.
- The file can be edited (council intentional vote)
- All existing information is retained (council vote)
- Repoman updates ChangeLog so no filtering voodoo (council vote)
- Works with AnyVCS and branches*
- Needs no changes regarding Manifests, since ChangeLog is just in
  AnyVCS, known to repoman during commit


* assuming the merger either uses plain commit before finally merging
  the changes to the final tree (and committing with repoman commit
  ther), or the merger simply resolves the conflict by discarding
  changelog changes and performing final repoman commit with a full message

-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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