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Re: 2.26 hard freeze status
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>
- Cc: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 15:25:54 +0000
- Subject: Re: 2.26 hard freeze status
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On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Friday 28 July 2017 07:20 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > I'd like to ask for the ChangeLog to be rotated immediately after the
> > release. We've made no progress on automatic generation of the darn
> > thing, and the current file is 10x larger than any of the previous
> > ones.
>
> Done. I wonder if we should go all the way and tar up everything other
> than ChangeLog and ChangeLog.1 into a ChangeLog.old.tar.gz.
When referring to the old history for which the ChangeLogs are useful, I
think it's definitely best to have them as plain text files for immediate
reference (meaning ChangeLog-1991, ChangeLog-1992 etc., split by year as
GCC does, as my preferred arrangement).
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com