On 10/26/11 19:33, Bruno wrote:
> In order to not bloat the tree I would like to see old entries purged
> when there are more than 25-50 of them, especially if they refer to
> ebuilds gone since more than 3-6 months.
One thing to remember:
Even if old ebuilds are gone in the tree already, they s
On 26-10-2011 14:02:12 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> 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
On Wed, 26 October 2011 Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El mié, 26-10-2011 a las 19:33 +0200, Bruno escribió:
> > On Wed, 26 October 2011 Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > > However, this also allows to do all kinds of other actions to the
> > > ChangeLog file, without actually adding an entry for the current chang
El mié, 26-10-2011 a las 19:33 +0200, Bruno escribió:
> On Wed, 26 October 2011 Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > However, this also allows to do all kinds of other actions to the
> > ChangeLog file, without actually adding an entry for the current change
> > being committed, as we've already seen in prac
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On 27 October 2011 06:33, Bruno 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 (hun
On 27 October 2011 06:33, Bruno 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 ebu
On Wed, 26 October 2011 Fabian Groffen wrote:
> However, this also allows to do all kinds of other actions to the
> ChangeLog file, without actually adding an entry for the current change
> being committed, as we've already seen in practice.
> The Council would like to remind developers that it is
All,
As decided by the Council in its last meeting at the beginning of this
month, ChangeLogs will not be generated from VCS commit messages,
because the Council wants to keep the ability to edit generated
ChangeLog messages [1].
As a result, the Council took this up with the Portage team, to mak
