On Di, 2009-04-21 at 19:19 +0200, Filippo Argiolas wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:51 PM, daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gnome org> wrote: > > On Di, 2009-04-21 at 15:34 +0200, Filippo Argiolas wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org> wrote: > >> >>> It would be perfectly fine to just generate ChangeLog from git history > >> >>> when packaging a release. No need to keep it under version control. > >> >> is there any specific format you would need? > >> > > >> > Usual stuff: date, name, description, files affected? > >> > >> As far I as I know Behdad is working on integrating the ChangeLog > >> macro directly into gnome-common as soon as the git module is fixed. > >> As he wrote the current rule that can be found on l.g.o and that > >> several modules are already using the format will probably stay that > >> one (git log --stat). > > > > so, should we wait for the work being finished? > > Sure, we can wait, not that we're going to release anything soon. > I'd say for now we can just: > - git mv ChangeLog ChangeLog.pre-git > - add a new ChangeLog with the following ok, go for it! > > 2009-04-21 bla bla <blabla bla> > > * *: The ChangeLog is auto-generated when releasing. If you > are seeing this, use 'git log' for a detailed list of changes. i think, just the message is enough (i.e. without date, name and mail address) daniel > > > another thing: on the ddl-list, some guys proposed some other format. > > might be worth a look > > Anything is good for me as long as I'm never going to read it :) > Seriously, would be great to have a single shared format for > autogenerated ChangeLog across all modules, so the one that will go in > gnome-common should be fine. > > Filippo -- this mail was sent using 100% recycled electrons ================================================ daniel g. siegel <dgsiegel gmail com> http://home.cs.tum.edu/~siegel gnupg key id: 0x6EEC9E62 fingerprint: DE5B 1F64 9034 1FB6 E120 DE10 268D AFD5 6EEC 9E62 encrypted email preferred
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