Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 9 Nov 2002 14:12:10 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>, Andreas Klemm <andreas@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/print/apsfilter Makefile distinfo
Message-ID:  <p05200f09b9f30c23900f@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20021109183921.GA62585@procyon.firepipe.net>
References:  <200211091711.gA9HB1HL087331@repoman.freebsd.org> <20021109183921.GA62585@procyon.firepipe.net>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 10:39 AM -0800 11/9/02, Will Andrews wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 09, 2002, Andreas Klemm wrote:
>  > andreas     2002/11/09 09:11:01 PST
>>
>>    Modified files:
>>      print/apsfilter      Makefile distinfo
>>    Log:
>>    update to new apsfilter version 7.2.4
>>    this is mainly a BUGFIX Release
>
>And that should have been your log.  Everything else below
>belongs in apsfilter, not FreeBSD.  Thank you.

It seems to me that developers get complaints when they provide too
little information, and also get complaints when they try to provide
more information.  In this case, I liked the added information, and
this log entry was only being added to two files (as opposed to some
long, detailed log entry which gets added to a few hundred files,
and thus bloats up the CVS repository).

I like to see enough information so the user can decide "do I need
to immediately upgrade this port?".  So, I liked the "new features"
and "bug fixes" sections that he had to be in the log itself.  I'll
admit that the parts about documentation changes and code improvements
did not seem quite as useful to me.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?p05200f09b9f30c23900f>