Hi,


I'd like to suggest
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ChangelogStyles

for discussion. Now some packages mix the styles, which IMHO is bad
style.
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On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 17:06 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> writes:
> > I'd like to suggest
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ChangelogStyles
> > for discussion.
>
> Not a good idea. Different people do this differently, and
> since some of those people are doing bulk rebuilds, there's no
> way to guarantee that exactly the same format will be followed
> in all the historical entries in a changelog. Or do you envision
> that people will actually retroactively change old log entries
> to match their preferred format? Now *that* would be a bad idea.

I thought that the mass bump scripts checked which format has been used.
I'm not familiar with them, though.
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On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 05:06:18PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> writes:
> > I'd like to suggest
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ChangelogStyles
> > for discussion.
>
> Not a good idea. Different people do this differently, and
> since some of those people are doing bulk rebuilds, there's no
> way to guarantee that exactly the same format will be followed
> in all the historical entries in a changelog. Or do you envision
> that people will actually retroactively change old log entries
> to match their preferred format? Now *that* would be a bad idea.
>
I pretty much agree with Tom's arguments here. Jussi, if you want to put
this up for a vote you can but I don't think it would pass without showing:

1) what the benefits are

2) how to address Tom's concerns about old log entries, multiple
maintainers, etc.

-Toshio
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On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 22:49 -0500, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 02, 2010 at 05:06:18PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Jussi Lehtola <jussilehtola@fedoraproject.org> writes:
> > > I'd like to suggest
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ChangelogStyles
> > > for discussion.
> >
> > Not a good idea. Different people do this differently, and
> > since some of those people are doing bulk rebuilds, there's no
> > way to guarantee that exactly the same format will be followed
> > in all the historical entries in a changelog. Or do you envision
> > that people will actually retroactively change old log entries
> > to match their preferred format? Now *that* would be a bad idea.
> >
> I pretty much agree with Tom's arguments here. Jussi, if you want to put
> this up for a vote you can but I don't think it would pass without showing:
>
> 1) what the benefits are
>
> 2) how to address Tom's concerns about old log entries, multiple
> maintainers, etc.

Yes, I'm pulling this one out.
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Le Sam 2 janvier 2010 22:33, Jussi Lehtola a écrit :

> I'd like to suggest
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/ChangelogStyles
>
> for discussion. Now some packages mix the styles, which IMHO is bad
> style.

I don't think it is possible to forbid style mixing as releng scripts add new
entries during operations such as mass rebuilds without checking what the
current style is.

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