Hey Charles,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/6 Charles Lepple <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clepple@gmail.com">clepple@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Arnaud Quette <<a href="mailto:aquette.dev@gmail.com">aquette.dev@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 2009/1/6 Charles Lepple <<a href="mailto:clepple@gmail.com">clepple@gmail.com</a>><br>
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>> > -Fri Jan 2 22:05:32 UTC 2008<br>
>> > +Fri Jan 2 22:05:32 UTC 2009<br>
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>> along these lines, it is fairly easy to get this date format into vi -<br>
>> just create a blank line with 'O', then run '.!TZ=UTC date'.<br>
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>> Of course, you don't have to leave off your email address like I just did.<br>
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> on my side, I'm generally using 'date -R'... apart when doing some<br>
> copy/paste from within the file.<br>
> with some obvious cons when we switch year (iirc, the same happens every<br>
> year!)<br>
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I'm wondering if we shouldn't switch to generating the ChangeLog from<br>
SVN commit messages? I believe someone has created a tool that formats<br>
the messages into GNU ChangeLog style (including mentioning which<br>
files and directories have been changed).<br>
</blockquote><div><br>iirc, we already talked about that around 2 or 4 years ago (this was linked to some of my work on LIRC), but can't find any evidences...<br><br>this is a good idea, in the mood of QA improvements/automation/focus on the important things...<br>
but will obviously be postponed to post 2.4.0 release.<br></div></div><br>3 things come to my mind:<br>- when do we generate it? (ie is the dist target sufficient?)<br>- timeline limitation: from 2.2.0 to 2.4.0 current, we have ~ 2900 lines... the use of "-r" is needed,<br>
- it seems we will also need an XML authors file, which is partly with AUTHORS.<br>we might move that last to CREDITS and generate a plain text AUTHORS one.<br><br>Arnaud<br>