-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 10/31/2011 05:45 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:46:30 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> two small suggestions regarding ChangeLogs: >> >> 1) Why is there no ChangeLog in the eclass directory? In my >> personal opinion this is missing there, if only for historical >> reasons... Should we still start one? >> >> 2) I'd like to suggest that for changelogs that grow beyond a >> certain size (e.g. profiles/ChangeLog) the file is "rotated" >> similar to /var/log logfiles. I.e. the current file is renamed >> with a date extension and a new file is started. This has the >> benefit that the archived file is static and will never be >> retransmitted by rsync. > > I like both suggestions. Maybe we could split by year? That way > the old non-conforming entries would just go into the oldest log. > Delaying rotation by one year (ie. the first entry in 2012 would > cause entries in 2010 to be split off) would prevent getting a > bunch of empty changelogs Jan 1st. > > There is always the problem with abandoned (but working) packages which may have no commits in > 2 years. We'll end up with empty ChangeLogs.
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