From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2011-11-08
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:08:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111027070856.GM843@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EA88615.7050904@gentoo.org>
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On 27-10-2011 00:13:41 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> Fabian Groffen schrieb:
> > On 26-10-2011 23:03:39 +0200, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote:
> >> Fabian Groffen schrieb:
> >>> You can see it has been removed, but you typically want to know why.
> >>> That's the idea of the ChangeLog file.
> >>
> >> One of the arguments for logging everything in ChangeLog was that
> >> extracting this kind information from CVS can be cumbersome. So, I would
> >> not agree with "typically".
> >
> > I do not see your point. Does my sentence change for you if you remove
> > the "typically"?
>
> If the reason why you want ChangeLogs is avoiding having to get the
> information about commit activity from CVS, then the proposal to make
> exaclty that the minimal ChangeLog entry seems reasonable.
>
> If in addition you always want to know about the motivation for the
> commit, then it won't be sufficient I guess. But based on the previous
> discussion on mandatory ChangeLogs I have not gotten the impression that
> this was typically called for.
I still don't see your point, sorry.
--
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-26 16:30 [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items -- Council meeting 2011-11-08 Fabian Groffen
2011-10-26 16:35 ` [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] " Michał Górny
2011-10-26 16:37 ` Fabian Groffen
2011-10-26 16:49 ` Michał Górny
2011-10-26 17:06 ` Fabian Groffen
2011-10-26 17:11 ` Michał Górny
2011-10-26 17:15 ` Fabian Groffen
[not found] ` <1319652305.5300.7.camel@belkin4>
2011-10-26 19:09 ` Matt Turner
2011-10-26 20:58 ` Fabian Groffen
2011-10-26 21:03 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-10-26 21:07 ` Fabian Groffen
2011-10-26 22:13 ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2011-10-27 7:08 ` Fabian Groffen [this message]
2011-10-26 16:50 ` Markos Chandras
2011-10-31 6:43 ` Peter Volkov
2011-10-31 8:14 ` Michał Górny
2011-10-31 8:27 ` Peter Volkov
2011-10-31 9:52 ` [gentoo-project] " Petteri Räty
2011-10-31 10:27 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-11-01 21:07 ` Petteri Räty
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