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Re: Master open for 2.30!
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>
- Cc: GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:25:25 +0100
- Subject: Re: Master open for 2.30!
- References: <3219ba00-e79a-fb1c-92cc-03718ff3a059@gotplt.org>
* Siddhesh Poyarekar:
> One disappointment personally for me was my inability to conclude the
> ChangeLog transition in time. I still haven't had a chance to look at
> the vc-dwim project but I hope to this weekend. This means that we're
> stuck with ChangeLogs for a little longer. Would it make sense to just
> add them in the git log for now and not maintain the actual file? Once
> we arrive at a conclusion for the auto-generating program we can just
> stop writing changelog entries into the git log.
I think we should change policy just once. That is, maintain the file
for now, as before, and throw it away if we end up with the fully
automated solution. If we end up extracting the ChangeLog from the Git
log instead, we can rotate it just before starting with that.
Thanks,
Florian