Re: GNOME DVCS Survey Results

["Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt>]

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 11:23 +0100, Edward Hervey wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 20:32 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-01-03 at 22:46 -0500, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > > In December I ran a distributed version control system survey for GNOME.
> > > From the survey opening page:
> > > 
> > >   Thank you for taking the GNOME DVCS Survey.  This survey is run on behalf
> > >   of the GNOME Foundation board of directors, release team, and sysadmin team.
> > >   The GNOME project is planning a possible move from SVN to a distributed
> > >   version control system in 2009.  The contenders for the system to use are
> > >   bzr, git, and hg.  The aim of the survey is to help us better understand
> > >   familiarity and preferences of our active contributor base regarding the
> > >   future version control system for GNOME.  The survey results will be
> > >   informational and will be sent to foundation-list and desktop-devel-list
> > >   upon completion.
> > > 
> > > GNOME contributors with an SVN account who had an SSH key installed on their
> > > account were invited to fill in the survey.  A total of 1083 account holders
> > > were invited, and 579 filled in the survey.  The survey results are now
> > > available to the public:
> > > 
> > >   http://www.gnome.org/~behdad/dvcs-survey/
> > > 
> > > Elijah Newren did an initial analysis of the data.  His analysis also includes
> > > the survey questions and answers.  Find it at:
> > > 
> > >   http://blogs.gnome.org/newren/2009/01/03/gnome-dvcs-survey-results/
> > > 
> > > If you analyze the results, please reply to this thread and also leave a
> > > comment on my blog post linking to your analysis:
> > > 
> > >   http://mces.blogspot.com/2009/01/gnome-dvcs-survey.html
> > 
> > 
> > Just in case I am forced to switch to git in the future (being open
> > minded here, although I prefer bazaar), does someone have any advice how
> > to generate a nice GNU style ChangeLog (like what emacs produces) from
> > git commit logs?  I know that some projects like Cairo auto-generate
> > ChangeLog already, but the default git changelog format is too
> > detailed/ugly IMHO.
> 
>   Heya, I wrote a python script for PiTiVi (now that we've switch to
> git) that does just that and which we run at (pre-)release-time to
> generate the ChangeLog file:
> 
> http://git.pitivi.org/?p=pitivi.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/makeChangelog.py;hb=HEAD
> 

Heh, thanks a lot.  This looks nice.  Nicer than the one in gnulib that
Rui Tiago pointed out.  Although I must say not as nice as my 'gnulog'
bazaar log formatter plugin.. ;-)  But I guess good enough that I'd be
comfortable replacing a hand written ChangeLog with autogenerated one.

Regards,

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
<gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>
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