Documenting Commits

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Sun Sep 22 20:38:50 UTC 2013


Hey there,

Doug Smythies wrote:

> I don't think we drove this one to an overall consensus (we had some
> off-list exchange also).
> 
> There is consensus on:
> 
> . The changelog must be updated when the package version of the
> Desktop help docs is going to be updated from the not packaged
> version. This would be a documentation committer requirement, and
> not of concern to documentation contributors.
> 
> . The changelog does not have to be updated for every single commit.
> 
> There is not consensus on:
> 
> . The frequency that the changelog should be updated in the not
> packaged version.
> 
> Regardless, I consider this issue to be a documentation committer
> issue and not something a documentation contributor needs to
> worry about. (Which is why, as mentioned above, we removed the
> changelog stuff from that new "getting started" page.)

So it's safe to say that if we do any commits (once the doc freeze
is over), we don't need to do 'dch -i' and 'debcommit'?

-- 
Little Girl

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