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From: Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:37:17 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADqQcK7COZTp01zVdvX+aRPSPCqUw9FN81a+9DHcbu4UBwzBGA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E745B01.9040805@gentoo.org>

On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 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.
>

I agree. Plus, if we use git-notes to *append* to ChangeLog entries
(in case you left out important information), we've covered all bases
as far as I'm concerned.

-- 
~Nirbheek Chauhan

Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team



  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-17  9:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-16 14:08 [gentoo-project] ChangeLog generation: Edit generated Changelogs Markos Chandras
2011-09-16 21:32 ` "Paweł Hajdan, Jr."
2011-09-17  8:32   ` Markos Chandras
2011-09-17  9:07     ` Nirbheek Chauhan [this message]
2011-09-17 14:01       ` Rich Freeman
2011-09-19 13:26         ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-19 13:44           ` Markos Chandras
2011-09-19 14:27             ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-19 16:28               ` Markos Chandras
2011-09-19 16:51                 ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-19 16:58                   ` Markos Chandras
2011-09-19 17:09                     ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-19 17:21                       ` Markos Chandras
2011-09-19 17:53                         ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-19 21:39               ` Donnie Berkholz
2011-09-19 21:46                 ` Michał Górny
2011-09-20  6:57                   ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-28 17:37 ` Fabian Groffen
2011-09-28 18:24   ` Mr. Aaron W. Swenson
2011-09-29 17:04   ` Markos Chandras

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