El mar, 16-09-2014 a las 07:26 -0400, Rich Freeman escribió: > 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 >
Maybe one option would be to kill Changelogs and provide a script to let people get git messages and reformat them in a way similar as current ChangeLog files, that way people will still be able to save this information for the future (if they won't have internet conection later for example) and read it simply with "less" for example. With this option, we won't need to provide Changelogs and distribute them but people wanting to have them will still be able to generate them if wanted (for example, just after updating portage tree)
