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Re: [PATCH] Move ChangeLog to ChangeLog.old/ChangeLog.19
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Gabriel F. T. Gomes" <gabriel at inconstante dot net dot br>, <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:21:32 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move ChangeLog to ChangeLog.old/ChangeLog.19
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On Fri, 11 Oct 2019, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > My expectation for would be that the automatic ChangeLog generation is
> > always the last one before tagging and branching (so for future cycles
> > it's run for commits from the last release tag up to HEAD at that point,
> > whereas for this cycle the starting commit would be the point at which we
> > renamed the manually written ChangeLog, not the previous release tag).
>
> We are debating off-list whether you are in favor of renaming the
> ChangeLog *now*, or want to delay that to a future date. Would you
> please clarify?
I support renaming it now, and making the wiki documentation of the
release process name the relevant commit as the starting point for
ChangeLog generation for the 2.31 release.
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com