Re: policy on splitting ChangeLogs?

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Wednesday 21 March 2012 16:00:29 Stan Shebs wrote:
> On 3/19/12 5:48 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > i'd like to split up a ChangeLog to push arch-specific pieces into
> > subdirs rather than having the common ChangeLog be clogged with
> > non-common changes. is there a policy governing this ?  or should i just
> > cut all the relevant pieces out of the common one and paste it into the
> > subdir and be done ?
> 
> That's a decision left up to maintainers.  In general, I've come to
> favor having fewer ChangeLog files, as with the ubiquity of public
> source-control systems, the manually-maintained logs are coming to seem
> more like an anachronism left over from pre-Internet days, and reducing
> the number is one way to spend less time and effort on managing them.
> Also, if you do per-arch logs, then you've forced everybody making a
> cross-arch change into editing dozens of ChangeLogs.  So while as
> cross-platform types, we love to separate things into subdirs, I think
> this is one case where it will come to seem like more of a nuisance than
> a benefit.

in the case of sim tests, i don't think so.  it's uncommon to get updates that 
span multiple arches in there when compared to the number of arch-specific 
entries.  i think i saw one or two that spanned multiple dirs during the 
split.  certainly YMMV.
-mike

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