On 20:54 Thu 28 Oct , Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 10/28/2010 07:22 PM, Fabian Groffen wrote: > > Your committing this way actually supports the thought that you have > > something to hide, because you don't document what you did, and you > > didn't update the ChangeLog reducing overal visibility of your actions. > > ChangeLog is for users. The package content didn't change at all. There > was nothing to log in for.
I like to see a ChangeLog message for everything. If an ebuild suddenly breaks and a user sees no ChangeLog message, the assumption would then be that he somehow broke his system. The QA team is not superhuman in its ability to avoid mistakes... > > I don't want to actually get that suspicious feeling, that makes that I > > actually start looking into what you committed. > > When I see someone skipping ChangeLog, I take it as "something so minor, > not worth looking into at all". Quite the opposite. I take it as "making my job as a maintainer more difficult" because it gives me more places I have to look to track down what happened and why. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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