On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 09:42:27 -0500 "Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina" <zeroch...@gentoo.org> wrote:
[...] > >> We've had this discussion before ... so ... > > > > > > what i remember of it is someone adding a ChangeLog file to eclass/ > > and sending an email to ask people to fill it. Mind sharing a link ? > > > > I think I'll add ChangeLog to every category and ask people to fill > > it whenever they make changes to a package in that category. This > > would have the same level of usefulness as a ChangeLog in eclass/. > > This kind of comment isn't productive, let's stick to being > productive. That's because I haven't given the reasons: per-category changelogs would give long-term tracking with bug references and credits for package additions and removals. > If you feel that the commit log is "good enough" then open a bug > assigned to QA to remove the existing Changelog. If the existing > Changelog is removed then our policy would be that it doesn't need to > be updated anymore. Not sure how many people would need to sign off > on that idea, but that would be the process. Unless I missed something, QA is not the deciding power, council as a last resort representation of the dev community is; I guess that's why we're still having this conversation on gentoo-dev ml. Alexis.
