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

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

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On 09/17/11 00:32, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
> On 9/16/11 7:08 AM, Markos Chandras wrote:
>> Council decided to push back to ML the remaining bullet point
>> about ChangeLog generation[1]
>> 
>> "should we require that autogenerated changelogs have a way to
>> edit them afterwards to fix typos and such."
> 
> In my opinion we should do the simplest thing that works, because 
> bikeshedding on this is already taking too long.
> 
> There are many successful open source projects which do not have 
> explicit ChangeLog files and rely only on VCS logs. They're doing
> fine.
> 
> I agree that there may be benefits to handling the ChangeLogs in
> some fancy way, but let's be practical and pragmatic. In my opinion
> it's a minor issue, and benefits of git migration would be far
> greater.
> 
> Paweł
> 
In my opinion, we do not need to care about typos etc. We are human
beings, so mistakes are part of our lives. Being able to fix
post-generated changelogs will increase the size of $VCS since
Changelogs need to be placed to $VCS for editing after generation and
having a smart deduplication algorithm on the server side to filter
duplicate messages. This is a bit stupid. If you make a mistake on
your commit message, that's fine. Be careful next time.

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Regards,
Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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