Re: wip/oksh committer request

[Kevin Bloom <kevin.bloom%posteo.net@localhost>]

Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:

> No, I don't think waiting for official NEWS is reasonable.  That would
> be like delaying until we get a Teletype Model 19 (waiting for Baudot)!
> What you extracted is close to what NEWS should have been, and we don't
> need perfect - the idea is that someone updating from pkgsrc can scan
> "cvs log" and know if there is anything changing that will cause them
> trouble, that they need to adapt to, or that is new and spiffy they can
> use.
> The concept is that the commit message contain "what upstream *should
> have put* in NEWS".   Changelog is a detailed list of all changes, and
> most of these are not NEWS-worthy.
> 

Okay, makes sense.

> That's not really that huge; it's only two screens on my browser.  I
> would paste it into a file and then start trimming, deleting anything
> that says android (since pkgsrc doesn't build for android), and anything
> that says or means bugfix or minor improvement, unless you (in reading
> time, not with work) get the idea that the bug was so terrible it made
> the program unusable.
> 
> I'm not claiming what I just did was the right answer or that something
> different is wrong or worse, as I don't know this code at all, but I
> just took what is in Changelog and pruned things that don't really seem
> important to know about.   But this is an example of what I think is
> good to include vs delete.

Alright, I'll keep this in mind for my next wip package! Thank you.