On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 6:18 AM, hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Ulrich Mueller: >> >> ChangeLogs are aimed at users > > Did any1 ask them if they care? >
I'm sure somebody will reply and say that they care. It still seems like a lot of overhead to me for a very one-off workflow. Maybe if portage automatically output the relevant changelog entries in pretend mode we could pretend that they're news or something like that. Most likely, if you stick something important in the changelog it will be read by maybe 0.1% of our users before emerging the package. Maybe if you're lucky 20% of people running into some kind of breakage will read the changelog after the fact. I imagine that 19.5% of those 20% would check the git log if the changelog didn't exist. If we actually move to a model where many users actually sync their trees from git, then I'd expect the changelogs to be even less useful. After all, git will actually tell you what changed since your last sync. -- Rich
