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Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 18:18 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 
>>suggestion:
>>stop keeping ChangeLog files in CVS and instead, let them be generated 
>>automagically by the cvs server using the last <arbitrary number> of commit 
>>messages.  if you really want to keep a commit message out of the changelog, 
>>then we come up with a simple policy of prefixing the message with a period 
>>(to keep it hidden :P).
> 
> 
> I like the idea.  This should force people to actually make their cvs
> commit statements worth something.

Also forcing a Changelog syntax makes portage's -l feature useful, since
 it attempts to parse the Changelog to provide sane entries...but some
Changelogs don't seem to be in the correct syntax that the -l
functionality requires.  With a changelog standard this tool will be
much more useful.

- -Alec Warner (antarus)
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