Re: [GD-DEVEL] New commits

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:29:05 +0100 (IST)
[email protected] (Lars Hecking) wrote:

> Pierre writes:
> > Hell Lars,
> > 
> > I saw your first commits this morning, welcome on board!
>  
>  Thanks :)
> 
> > I added all files of all past GD releases. One of them has a
> > ChangeLog file. But it was not really a ChangeLog.
> >  
> > To ease my work, I created a "ISSUES" file. Each change has an id
> > which will match the issue Id in the tracker. Can you add your
> > changes in there? If it is related to one entry, like fixing a fix,
> > there is no need to create a new one.
> > 
> > It is not used directly now, but the format of the commit msg
> > should be: #123, description of the commit
> > 
> > where 123 is the issue id. Once the issues tracker is online, it
> > will provide patches for each issue using all relevant commits. The
> > final goal is to get the release changelog generated by the tracker.
> 
>  ISSUES, to me, sounds a lot like "known bugs", although from the
> actual contents it's clear they're fixes.
> 
>  I pretty much prefer a detailed ChangeLog file. Together with "cvs
> history" (which seems broken here, incidentally:

>  But I'll go with what is there right now. I don't want to start a
> holy war just yet ;-)

I do not really care, as long as it works and everyone is happy :)

If you prefer ChangeLog, go for it.

My only concern is to have patches available in the issue tracker (very
important for packages maintainers or users like embedded systems).

-- Pierre