Re: [E-devel] eet and updating ChangeLog: the moap tool

2009-01-31 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:30:53 +0100 (CET) Vincent Torri said: yes. NEWS would be a summary of the changelog for a quick 2 minute scan of "whats the important stuff". changelog is for all the nitty details when you get an updated release tarball. > On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Viktor Kojouharov wrote: >

Re: [E-devel] eet and updating ChangeLog: the moap tool

2009-01-31 Thread The Rasterman
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:03:48 + Andrew Williams said: > You can of course have both. > Generate a ChangeLog file from the subversion logs and have a > subversion hook update this everytime a change is made... > Would that keep everyone happy? i'd have no problem with this. as for 1.0 for st

Re: [E-devel] eet and updating ChangeLog: the moap tool

2009-01-31 Thread Vincent Torri
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Viktor Kojouharov wrote: from what I've seen in almost every other project, the ChangeLog is being used a SVC log mirror. It's the NEWS file that actually reflects meaningful changes between versions, not the ChangeLog. My point of view (maybe i should have been clearer)

Re: [E-devel] eet and updating ChangeLog: the moap tool

2009-01-31 Thread Michael Jennings
On Friday, 30 January 2009, at 15:41:35 (+0100), Vincent Torri wrote: > cedric just fixed a bug in eet, and he forgot to update the ChangeLog. I > do not criticise, it can happen to everyone, including me (and it did > happen to me). > > But, as we plan to do more releases, the ChangeLog will h

Re: [E-devel] eet and updating ChangeLog: the moap tool

2009-01-31 Thread Vincent Torri
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Vincent Torri wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Andrew Williams wrote: You can of course have both. Generate a ChangeLog file from the subversion logs and have a subversion hook update this everytime a change is made... Would that keep everyone happy? not really (for me)

Re: [E-devel] eet and updating ChangeLog: the moap tool

2009-01-31 Thread Viktor Kojouharov
from what I've seen in almost every other project, the ChangeLog is being used a SVC log mirror. It's the NEWS file that actually reflects meaningful changes between versions, not the ChangeLog. On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 22:16 +0100, Vincent Torri wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Andrew Williams wrote

Re: [E-devel] eet and updating ChangeLog: the moap tool

2009-01-31 Thread Vincent Torri
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Andrew Williams wrote: You can of course have both. Generate a ChangeLog file from the subversion logs and have a subversion hook update this everytime a change is made... Would that keep everyone happy? not really (for me). The svn log would pollute the ChangeLog file

Re: [E-devel] eet and updating ChangeLog: the moap tool

2009-01-31 Thread Viktor Kojouharov
On Sat, 2009-01-31 at 21:03 +, Andrew Williams wrote: > You can of course have both. > Generate a ChangeLog file from the subversion logs and have a > subversion hook update this everytime a change is made... > Would that keep everyone happy? > > Andy I believe this should be done for all p

Re: [E-devel] eet and updating ChangeLog: the moap tool

2009-01-31 Thread Andrew Williams
You can of course have both. Generate a ChangeLog file from the subversion logs and have a subversion hook update this everytime a change is made... Would that keep everyone happy? Andy On 30 Jan 2009, at 19:23, Vincent Torri wrote: > > > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: >

Re: [E-devel] eet and updating ChangeLog: the moap tool

2009-01-30 Thread Vincent Torri
On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > I really dislike ChangeLog files, they predate any source control > version. Now CVS/SVN/Git/Whatever nicely replaces that. So generating > it automatically is the way to go. of course I disagree. Mainly because of an experience i had with

Re: [E-devel] eet and updating ChangeLog: the moap tool

2009-01-30 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Vincent Torri wrote: > > Hey, > > cedric just fixed a bug in eet, and he forgot to update the ChangeLog. I > do not criticise, it can happen to everyone, including me (and it did > happen to me). > > But, as we plan to do more releases, the ChangeLog will have to

[E-devel] eet and updating ChangeLog: the moap tool

2009-01-30 Thread Vincent Torri
Hey, cedric just fixed a bug in eet, and he forgot to update the ChangeLog. I do not criticise, it can happen to everyone, including me (and it did happen to me). But, as we plan to do more releases, the ChangeLog will have to always be updated when such fixes are done, and i think that we sh