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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] Re: Old changelogs / eclass dir
From:       Ryan Hill <dirtyepic () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2011-10-31 21:52:00
Message-ID: 20111031160027.387b291e () gentoo ! org
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On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:39:39 +0000
Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:

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> On 10/31/2011 05:45 AM, Ryan Hill wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 19:46:30 +0200 "Andreas K. Huettel"
> > <dilfridge@gentoo.org> 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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