On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Kent Fredric <[email protected]> wrote: > On 27 October 2011 06:33, Bruno <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is there some guideline about old entries in the ChangeLog? >> >> Over the past months ChangeLogs represent a big part of the tree, some >> of them being pretty big and going back many changes (hundreds of them) >> and years (even for actively maintained ebuilds). >> > > A lot of the older changelog entries also tend to be less normal, and some > long changelogs are so a-typical its virtually impossible to parse them with > machine code.
Well, if the desire to trim changelogs is generally agreed upon we could always just count the lines and post a top-100 list or something and let package maintainers go in and truncate things as seems bet to them, with the guideline to keep the file intact up to a year before the last commit. Eventually the files will be cleaned up. Rich
