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

[Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>]

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On 09/19/11 19:51, Fabian Groffen wrote:
>> 
>> Yes a file is needed but like I said before, this file can be 
>> generated on a post-commit server just before populating portage
>> to rsync servers
> 
> What's the advantage of that?  We just end up with a different
> location for the information that's now in a file called ChangeLog.
> People want to be able to edit that stuff (yeah, no vote yet, but
> the tendency seemed going that way) so why not keep it local to the
> ebuild?
Well it seems to me that most people want the simplest solution which
is "if the changelog is wrong so be it"
> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>> In this case you need smart filtering tools to avoid duplicate 
>> messages ( one from $commit_message and the one you wrote
>> yourself to fix that message ). However, this will be the case if
>> we decide to allow edits on ChangeLogs.
> 
> Ehm.  Are we talking about the same thing here?  ChangeLog commits
> don't end up in ChangeLogs, do they?
What is a "Changelog commit"? How is that different from echangelog
"Fix previous changelog entry" + repoman commit -m "Changelog Fixed".
Could you please explain me the changelog edit mechanism you have in mind?

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