<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> On top of this I'd like to propose that whereever possible we use a<br>> common format for changes which are made by more than one person.
<br>><br>> I personally like:<br>><br>> * (Simon Huggins)<br>> * blah1<br>> * blah2<br>> * (Yves-Alexis Perez)<br>> * blah3<br>> * blah4<br>> etc.<br><br>I *strongly* agree here, the method based only on initals was less
<br>clear IMHO.<br></blockquote></div><br><br>On the topic of more people contributing to a changelog:<br><br>ideally it would be easier if once a person changed something and added a changelog<br>in svn it was followed by uploading to the archive. Hence changes by one person only per debian revision.
<br>This may not be practical because of the time a package needs to be tested before being considered<br>ready for upload, but we should still strive for upload 'early and often' IMHO, for avoiding bottlenecks<br>and the introduction of unrelated changes in a revision which theoretically make bug hunting harder.
<br><br>In the cases when an upload is not made in time and another commiter has changes to the package<br>I think the layout of the changelog would be better if it was a stricter format, so instead of what is above<br>we had:
<br><br> *blah1 (Simon Huggins)<br> *blah2 (Emanuele Rocca)<br> ...<br> *blahn (Simon Huggins)<br><br>so they are added chronologically (as the changelogs themselves) not per author.<br><br>this would make automatic handling a lot easier (I am now sedding across the files, and adding
<br>Bump Version to 3.6.2 (Jani Monoses) to 23 files would be way easier if the format wasn't hierarchical and<br>the corresponding header didn't have to be looked up.<br><br>Also grepping for changes by a person would be a lot more straightforward.
<br>The legibility of it will still be very good even if it wasn't _that_ pretty<br>And if legibility was affected it would mean they are way too many changes and it's time for an upload ;)<br><br>please consider this format before starting to update existing changelogs en-masse
<br><br>thank you<br>Jani<br><br>