From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 641 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2012 03:25:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 631 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Mar 2012 03:25:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (HELO smtp.gentoo.org) (140.211.166.183) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:25:23 +0000 Received: from vapier.localnet (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94FE11B4018; Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:25:22 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: policy on splitting ChangeLogs? Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:25:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.2.0; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Stan Shebs References: <201203192048.21988.vapier@gentoo.org> <4F6A335D.6020401@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <4F6A335D.6020401@earthlink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1921561.WpTMJF0ms1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201203222325.26066.vapier@gentoo.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-03/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 --nextPart1921561.WpTMJF0ms1 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1350 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 ? >=20 > 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 t= hat=20 span multiple arches in there when compared to the number of arch-specific= =20 entries. i think i saw one or two that spanned multiple dirs during the=20 split. certainly YMMV. -mike --nextPart1921561.WpTMJF0ms1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-length: 836 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJPa+0mAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBEeoP/ivfIqHFJIwW+yMBeHEwr41B 6sRZPQpRFxGH/UiM7RVGeaO46aqZEGW9MJzBk8wQ2ezISXz/5rQibHwI1oxnIO6k 1fNyrz/+cGuN7KGga7keN6Cwy6qndMkHXkTfmpYzmwH92Gdmx1LpxlNT2PKwi2FS YtxDEQpcpf8ur+/0GIbgciWOjkmev0oiLU8OCqBNeXVSsBulK8g6GolH/mEQ0/Fu e7PSBEvFQLR+OjgH3Mrx4vj44HgIw2WFHOf0lEkWysl15C2jF6qViT0r70Dm3UQi 9EfKUBjOdqR5me/ggDSKo2bKVmQGCyMhDpWH3jgt+qpbLFBqWUw5IR0aiqOQoVpY J+kE1/1fGB5W8Shm8TTqEoK1BbO66lrPivysVwkEbEO/5mAhEZwINK51wQliWNLZ QUBhobtpy9YHG2+eMXifjNumzkg//lr2a2+uFIKydfnWcadTf1bgNjPMcRz/9Mxi Vj9U4it2UZmqiizVvozHkSUKVRfpnEbkLPHqsZeTUSI0TRQi/OW1lgUnnt/wVQ67 REyukkps7sQToLcooZRDjFtdq3LABBNQrEpPSbNvxw+Wx8ttYa0LhHLUBR+3Csxn q/GUkVnmXhiSAuVAC3bvpzcmzqX87Kamv7RFZvVtrKn9IYYnlCfEzu0rrnFhVI8j /c2d7MkyvdZhHWJazybp =ybWY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1921561.WpTMJF0ms1--