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 1R5hEO-00037X-Kc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:02:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1EB721C22B; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:01:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E86321C219 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxh2 with SMTP id 2so4884176fxh.40 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:00:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=VhmucpDpEyEj2OfQIU59Ixqa8OHFckMZlewhQlr2MGU=; b=qJYRM4XPwcb8pFKUtIPUwapOL0K9FqceJqiPwaws0Tu7P82z7iXTd5VU/ksJNf/z/R GEfFNjPKMwsWwxa+lWE0R9j+QoBVs8Kl5SVgQpAt2e/DmeIEwMkanbEQa0u20pDqcIsc pn5AgOphLSOgrZgTam8V9rGikj7yNcXvrB+YY= Received: by 10.223.35.18 with SMTP id n18mr5391153fad.105.1316451628787; Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:00:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.241] ([150.140.230.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t19sm22294278faj.23.2011.09.19.10.00.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:00:27 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Markos Chandras Message-ID: <4E7774CC.8010906@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:58:52 +0300 From: Markos Chandras User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110824 Thunderbird/6.0 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 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs 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> <4E776DAC.8020500@gentoo.org> <20110919165152.GD1168@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20110919165152.GD1168@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7a3df00579864d8b5b5edc8ccad47102 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 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? - -- Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJOd3TMAAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCNaoP+wUE5u5wxey16ZJ92iNKPFVh fNeuLJx2KlRRBnEw4iWLg4K0radgK+QqTJnp3FKqqyLdkDBtzjmMO52+aUeTb8LU hwPkwi9UnshbWRNl3sOdrXH/bL+jCFuqxFCaM9pOhzQT5WwzjDkNVVry9VZKAjOM I125/sHha4asZzl6AxcvTMtd3pn4eUNYySs2Qg5QLQZBNR6EougbDz5U386uPAYW S8an8gPDABEg3BfiAxGKBz4vssNuFSOmwtmDAZP0O5QAzfV9exm9YAERQYmPpLt2 mUYRpxDRqEd3Swzk0RgRXu0Hc/yzqJDD7Zv05OnVq6KKkxRAF9SnMY2888jNObhn 0FLSFs61b1DfkSUdOBqTvJyCPdNe/y1JZ/tIdJjUUAnokXtL8uGxoruyHG+dxPuE OcCuS1Z3NmLdyGl2X/fI8BhXdH2HRRPHdUypddxjtBeBMYolLVX5gYdkoLK6yeBK BeokfJF8bGNE4j89/+nLtldlU0AEza6c35v+tlGou4kLXBDwnLYmvlJkGfzNxb75 eLp5qbAL564M1W4rtZ3RWCZVhzWdXMMONO0qHc5d+/umLVdJy6We1DGOF/fuYaPg ETNspIE1unCFMthD8Iz464iNw8N4Dh2Rq3mv6Ammwe1L9uKbA2pUxIT7fDJAi0bV GwQwEYxeW82hKhH0WcHu =uB0y -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----