new Pd packages looking for sponsors

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:55:55AM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:21:17 (CET), IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>
>> On 2010-11-09 22:51, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>
>>>> pd-pan
>>>
>>> Please update the changelog when updating the package. The timestamp 
>>> helps people tell when was the last time someone worked on a 
>>> package. Also the long description is too short
>>>
>>
>> hmm, this confuses me a bit.
>> i thought that the changelog should not be touched until the upload, 
>> and only the person uploading would then run git-dch to regenerate 
>> the changelog from the commit-messages (and eventually cleanup).
>
>You can greatly help the person reviewing the upload by running git-dch 
>at the point where you think the package is ready for upload, i.e., you 
>think the package is in a state that you would have uploaded yourself 
>if you had upload priviledges.
>
>Of course the actual upload might want to do some additional changes or 
>spots mistakes. In that case he has to update the changelog in a 
>seperate commit, but that's not really a problem.

I suspect (but must admit that I haven't closely read our wiki pages 
lately) that we have no clear rules about this.

I propose the following:

   * As a minimum, the changelog is completely untouched until final 
     release, where the uploader auto-generates using "git-dch -R", 
     adjusts by hand as needed, and commits the changes.
   * Optionally intermediate updates to the changelog can be applied.
     Begin with "git-dch" and if that fails then instead use
     "git-dch --since <REF>" (replacing <REF> with reference to last 
     commit that touched debian/changelog), set distribution to
     UNRELEASED, and commit the changes.
   * Intermediate changelog updates are encouraged when release is 
     expected only later, and when more people work on same package.


In other words, I propose to replace the earlier commit style 
(documented in the wiki?) of unconditionally adding UNRELEASED - which 
does not work optimally together with git-dch IMO.


  - Jonas

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