On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 12:49 -0600, Tommy Reynolds wrote: > Uttered "Paul W. Frields" <stickster@xxxxxxxxx>, spake thus: > > > I think the CVS log would be nice, but my understanding is that it's > > difficult to parse for this content. > > I hacked together the attached shell script and ran it against the > current "release-notes/" document. It gave this output: > [...snip...] > In addition to the attached shell script, I propose adding an > "AUTHORS" file to each document. The example one I used above is: > > ==[release-notes/AUTHORS]== > > ######################################################################## > # We use this AUTHORS file to map CVS checkin names to real names and > # email addresses. > ######################################################################## > # DEFAULT fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx - > jtr Tommy.Reynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Tommy Reynolds > kwade Karsten.Wade@xxxxxxxxxx Karsten Wade This is probably a good idea regardless of the route we choose for populating the %changelog, IMHO. > Now that I look at the voluminous output, I'm less sure that we want > the CVS log in the RPM. I think your current dummied-up %changelog > is perhaps more useful. I think James Laska had some input on the %changelog hacking, in that just setting a dummy was neither helpful nor advisable. (I'm kind of putting words in his mouth; he was less unkind, but in all honesty my solution didn't deserve a lot of kindness.) ;-) I think he suggested keeping a ChangeLog with the documents that would be used only for packaging. I am still mulling that over... -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Documentation Project: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/
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