On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:39:39 +0000 Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 10/31/2011 05:45 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:46:30 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" > > <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> Dear all, > >> > >> two small suggestions regarding ChangeLogs: > >> > >> 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? In my > >> personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical > >> reasons... Should we still start one? > >> > >> 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a > >> certain size (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) the file is "rotated" > >> similar to /var/log logfiles. I.e. the current file is renamed > >> with a date extension and a new file is started. This has the > >> benefit that the archived file is static and will never be > >> retransmitted by rsync. > > > > I like both suggestions. Maybe we could split by year? That way > > the old non-conforming entries would just go into the oldest log. > > Delaying rotation by one year (ie. the first entry in 2012 would > > cause entries in 2010 to be split off) would prevent getting a > > bunch of empty changelogs Jan 1st. > > > > > There is always the problem with abandoned (but working) packages > which may have no commits in > 2 years. We'll end up with empty > ChangeLogs. notifempty minsize 5k -- fonts, gcc-porting, it makes no sense how it makes no sense toolchain, wxwidgets but i'll take it free anytime @ gentoo.org EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662
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