On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:36 +0300, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:04, ext Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 13:45 +0300, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > Yes, it does not tell the reasons for the changes (they are in
> > > debian/changelog), but I'm too lazy to put those since you seem to be
> > > the only one who is interested about Libosso changes ;)
> > > 
> > > > By the way, most projects that I work with in the GNOME world just
> > > > copy/paste their ChangeLog entry into the commit comment.
> > > 
> > > I'll do that if Libosso is in Gnome someday :)
> > > 
> > > Btw. I've had exactly one patch from outside Nokia for Libosso and it
> > > was from you. Many thanks.
> > 
> > At the moment, nobody (me included) knows what on earth libosso is. The
> > README is empty, for instance.
> 
> It's there just because automake complains otherwise. The code and API
> should be pretty self-explaining (yes, they're not, that's why I'm
> working on new API). 98% of Debian packages the README file is totally
> useless anyway.

Almost 98% of debian packages are useless, I guess. But really, I'll
take a description from anywhere - it doesn't have to be a README.

> > ChangeLogs are one way to introduce people to what a module does and how
> > it works, and how it is evolving. Not doing ChangeLogs because nobody
> > cares about them would be almost a circular argument.
> 
> Well, just try to use the diff. The code is so simple that manually
> writing some ChangeLog just seems stupid to me.
> 
> > It's your module, but it would help me.
> 
> Just ask me if you have questions (and I'll look the answers from the
> code).

Could you at least put together a one sentence description of what this
module does?

-- 
Murray Cumming
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