On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 15:58:13 +0100
Leif Middelschulte <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2011/2/4 Vincent Torri <[email protected]>:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Mike Blumenkrantz wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:31:12 +0100
> >> Cedric BAIL <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Raphael Kubo da Costa
> >>> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[email protected]> writes:
> >>>>> Em 04-02-2011 11:34, Leif Middelschulte escreveu:
> >>>>>> Hey guys,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> a couple of days ago I proposed a tag within commit message, which can
> >>>>>> be used later on to generate the changelog (over interval or check per
> >>>>>> commit).
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> e.g.:
> >>>>>> CHANGELOG: added foo to bar
> >>>>>
> >>>>> This seems pretty reasonable!
> >>>>
> >>>> Do people not write the appropriate ChangeLog entries with their commits
> >>>> because they are too lazy or because they just forget to do so?
> >>>>
> >>>> If they are too lazy, the CHANGELOG: thing might help; OTOH, if they
> >>>> just forget to do that, why would they remember to add the CHANGELOG:
> >>>> tag?
> >>>
> >>> Agreed, I tend to forget, not a lazyness issue. At least for me.
> >> +1 forgetting
> They wouldn't forget, as one could provide a commit template (if there
> is such thing) for efl that includes a line like
> CHANGELOG:
> That line can be lefally commented out in cases where it just isn't
> necessary. So forgetting to modify that line alltogether (whether
> comment out, nor give a changelog summary) would be as bad as
> forgetting to give a description/summary for the entire commit. Plus
> it would be compatible to all git/svn/whatever people use and
> changelog items would be automatically removed when the commit is
> reverted. As of now, changelog commits are sometimes forgotten and get
> seperated by using an extra commit for the textfile.
> 
> > even if i said a lot of stuff about ChangeLog, my mail was not only for
> > that. For me, it's about better code committed. That's exactly what raster
> > does with most of the patches by samsung, btw. He looks at them and commit
> > them with changes, fixes, improvements, etc...
> 
> I don't want to object to what vincent says. I'll leave this topic to
> developers with more experience in concurrent development of a new
> version and maintaining of an old one.
> 
> BR,
> 
> Leif
> 
> > Vincent
mmm I've only been here a short time but I'm not sure we have the manpower to
do what samsung does.  We have very few active developers and even fewer who
would actively review/commit patches.  As it is now, the vast majority of
patches that get sent to the list get reviewed+committed by either raster,
devilhorns, or me.  Increasing the workload for us just to avoid people
forgetting changelog updates isn't a fix for the problem imo, it's a workaround.

-- 
Mike Blumenkrantz
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