Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Policy on commit messages

2014-11-02 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 02 Nov 2014 12:00, Tony Lewis wrote: > Tim Rühsen wrote: > > I guess with 'work from the distribution' you are talking about a tarball > > (created by 'make dist'). > > I suppose so -- since I haven't learned git yet, I didn't even know how you > created the tarball. autotool based projects cr

Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Policy on commit messages

2014-11-02 Thread Giuseppe Scrivano
"Tony Lewis" writes: > Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > >> changelogs are crap, not useful to anyone, that is my opinion. > > That assumes that everyone interested in the wget source is actively using > git. However, many people work from the distribution and the only > documentation they receive is

Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Policy on commit messages

2014-11-02 Thread Tony Lewis
Tim Rühsen wrote: > I guess with 'work from the distribution' you are talking about a tarball > (created by 'make dist'). I suppose so -- since I haven't learned git yet, I didn't even know how you created the tarball. Tony

Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Policy on commit messages

2014-11-02 Thread Tim Rühsen
Am Sonntag, 2. November 2014, 09:51:49 schrieb Tony Lewis: > Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > > changelogs are crap, not useful to anyone, that is my opinion. > > That assumes that everyone interested in the wget source is actively using > git. However, many people work from the distribution and the onl

Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Policy on commit messages

2014-11-02 Thread Tony Lewis
Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > changelogs are crap, not useful to anyone, that is my opinion. That assumes that everyone interested in the wget source is actively using git. However, many people work from the distribution and the only documentation they receive is in the changelog. I have no objec

Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Policy on commit messages

2014-11-01 Thread Giuseppe Scrivano
Mike Frysinger writes: > On 01 Nov 2014 14:05, Tim Rühsen wrote: >> Am Samstag, 1. November 2014, 05:43:11 schrieb Darshit Shah: >> > In the last few days we've seen a huge flurry of activity and a large >> > number >> > of patches have been committed to the code base. As someone who was >> > tr

Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Policy on commit messages

2014-11-01 Thread Mike Frysinger
On 01 Nov 2014 14:05, Tim Rühsen wrote: > Am Samstag, 1. November 2014, 05:43:11 schrieb Darshit Shah: > > In the last few days we've seen a huge flurry of activity and a large number > > of patches have been committed to the code base. As someone who was > > traveling and hence unable to keep up w

Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Policy on commit messages

2014-11-01 Thread Darshit Shah
On 11/01, Tim Rühsen wrote: Am Samstag, 1. November 2014, 05:43:11 schrieb Darshit Shah: Hi, In the last few days we've seen a huge flurry of activity and a large number of patches have been committed to the code base. As someone who was traveling and hence unable to keep up with the mailing li

Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Policy on commit messages

2014-11-01 Thread Daniel Stenberg
On Sat, 1 Nov 2014, Tim Rühsen wrote: If we move to detailed commit messages (I would appreciate it), then we should autogenerate ChangeLog files from the commit messages. You will find many projects out there already doing so. I would strongly support this as well. -- / daniel.haxx.se

Re: [Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Policy on commit messages

2014-11-01 Thread Tim Rühsen
Am Samstag, 1. November 2014, 05:43:11 schrieb Darshit Shah: > Hi, > > In the last few days we've seen a huge flurry of activity and a large number > of patches have been committed to the code base. As someone who was > traveling and hence unable to keep up with the mailing lists, I tried to > cat

[Bug-wget] [Bug-Wget] Policy on commit messages

2014-10-31 Thread Darshit Shah
Hi, In the last few days we've seen a huge flurry of activity and a large number of patches have been committed to the code base. As someone who was traveling and hence unable to keep up with the mailing lists, I tried to catch up by looking at the code base and the changes that have been made