* policy on splitting ChangeLogs?
@ 2012-03-20 0:48 Mike Frysinger
2012-03-21 2:19 ` Doug Evans
2012-03-21 20:00 ` Stan Shebs
0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mike Frysinger @ 2012-03-20 0:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: GDB
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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 ?
-mike
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* Re: policy on splitting ChangeLogs?
2012-03-20 0:48 policy on splitting ChangeLogs? Mike Frysinger
@ 2012-03-21 2:19 ` Doug Evans
2012-03-21 2:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-21 20:00 ` Stan Shebs
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Doug Evans @ 2012-03-21 2:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mike Frysinger; +Cc: GDB
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> 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 ?
> -mike
It kinda depends on what the owners want.
You don't explicitly say you're talking about sim/, and it's not clear
that's it.
[There are already many sim/$arch/ChangeLog files, though I see
several entries in sim/ChangeLog that could be moved to the
appropriate sim/$arch/ChangeLog.]
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* Re: policy on splitting ChangeLogs?
2012-03-21 2:19 ` Doug Evans
@ 2012-03-21 2:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-03-21 2:42 ` Doug Evans
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mike Frysinger @ 2012-03-21 2:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Doug Evans; +Cc: GDB
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On Tuesday 20 March 2012 22:18:48 Doug Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 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 ?
>
> It kinda depends on what the owners want.
>
> You don't explicitly say you're talking about sim/, and it's not clear
> that's it.
yes, i'm talking about sim ChangeLogs
-mike
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* Re: policy on splitting ChangeLogs?
2012-03-21 2:26 ` Mike Frysinger
@ 2012-03-21 2:42 ` Doug Evans
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Doug Evans @ 2012-03-21 2:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Mike Frysinger; +Cc: GDB
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2012 22:18:48 Doug Evans wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 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 ?
>>
>> It kinda depends on what the owners want.
>>
>> You don't explicitly say you're talking about sim/, and it's not clear
>> that's it.
>
> yes, i'm talking about sim ChangeLogs
> -mike
Ah. So you want to move entries in sim/ChangeLog to sim/$arch/ChangeLog?
I say go for it.
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* Re: policy on splitting ChangeLogs?
2012-03-20 0:48 policy on splitting ChangeLogs? Mike Frysinger
2012-03-21 2:19 ` Doug Evans
@ 2012-03-21 20:00 ` Stan Shebs
2012-03-23 3:25 ` Mike Frysinger
1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Stan Shebs @ 2012-03-21 20:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb
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.
Stan
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* Re: policy on splitting ChangeLogs?
2012-03-21 20:00 ` Stan Shebs
@ 2012-03-23 3:25 ` Mike Frysinger
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mike Frysinger @ 2012-03-23 3:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gdb; +Cc: Stan Shebs
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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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