On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:49:39AM -0300, Angel Velásquez wrote: > Hi, > > For some packages that i've been maintaining over months I have to > keep a ChangeLog .. since it's supported with pacman, and give us > (devs and tus) some resume, also this resume give to our users the > idea of what is being applied in this release/version of a package. > > I usually do that on critical packages, and packages that have a > previous ChangeLog file. > > So, a good practice is, if you're doing the favour to other dev to > maintain or rebuild his package, and this guy added a ChangeLog .. the > correct way to proceed is to write something in it, maybe this can > sound you like zomfg this is not kiss! .. but stuff like this bring us > quality IMHO. For example, I have been busy those months, and maybe i > will continue to be busy a few months more, but trust me, in my real > spare time, i dedicate sometime to the project, and when I saw that my > packages were updated I would like to know who and what change he did > instead to diff + look at the bugtracker + look at the rebuilds + look > at the mailing list .. as i've said, sometimes the free time is like 2 > hours or less per day, so i loose some much time just seing commit > logs and checking the bug tracker, having the changelog that I've been > using will help me for sure. > > Again, i'm not criticizing anybody, i'm just in favour of start doing > the things better and better, and i've had several packages that were > updated by someother devs/tus (and I am grateful with them) but, they > miss the part to fill the ChangeLog which makes me wonder what they > did on the packages (for sure, i've read a lot and now i'm confident > of what they did, but this makes me waste a whole morning reading > mails, bugtracker, and reading the logs of the svn). I'm all for writing useful (and detailed, if necessary) commit messages instead of writing ChangeLog entries. We use a VCS for some reason. Using proper commit messages makes changes damn easy to follow without having to maintain these inconvenient ChangeLog files. > > That said, Have a nice weekend, i will try to smash bugs and update > some of my packages in order to be up to date the next week. P.S.: You should probably CC mails to aur-general if they affect TUs as well. > > > -- > Angel Velásquez > angvp @ irc.freenode.net > Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User > Linux Counter: #359909 > http://www.angvp.com
