Re: CVS ChangeLog

On 03/30/05 03:30, will guaraldi wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Steven Armstrong wrote:
>>
>> I was just preparing for tagging the current CVS state as version 1.2 
>> when I noticed that the /pyblosxom/ChangeLog is way out of date.
> 
> The ChangeLog was totally different from what you just changed.  It was 
> way out of date (we didn't use it anymore), but it contained a higher 
> level revision history of what was going on with the code than the checkin 
> comments for all checkins since the project started.
> 
> 

Ups, looks like I was to fast comitting that one.
If it's not updated, it may be better to get rid of it. It may confuse
users (it did confuse me) if it's shipped with a release.

> I don't think this is necessary.  If we were better about the quality of 
> our checkin comments and explaining what the ramifications of the changes 
> were, then this would be useful.  But our checkin comments are pretty 
> mediocre and I think they're only useful to us.
> 

That's a point.

> 
>> There are also scripts and XSL stylesheets to generate HTML versions and 
>> RSS feeds from it. Maybe that could be of use for pyblosxom.sf.net?
> 
> Mmm...  We already have a checkins mailing list.  I'm not sure posting it 
> on the web-site (mostly updating the web-site constantly) and doing RSS 
> feeds really helps us.
> 

Again I see your point.

Thanks for the answers

cheers
Steven


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