On Wed, 23 May 2012 12:29:34 -0400 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:02 AM, Samuli Suominen > <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > On 05/23/2012 05:36 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > >> One person doesn't do entries. OMG let's remove it! > >> > > > > absolutely because inconsitency renderess the file useless > > > > Well, for now the solution is to enforce following policy. > > For the future, perhaps the policy's time has ended. Sure, Changelogs > can be handy, but they are increasingly redundant and scm comments > have the potential to be far more useful. By all means require > meaningful scm commit comments, but if Changelog files are holding us > back either auto-generate them or ditch them. ChangeLogs could be fine for ebuilds. But for more broad cases like eclasses, one can usually have a set of changes prepared for commit. With CVS, it's PITA but with git it's already much better. Of course, it all fails if every commit has to update a randomly changed, shared file called ChangeLog... -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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