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Re: Developer Guide



On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 10:17:27AM -0800, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> --- Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 11:46:27AM +0200, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > > ChangeLog, Come on guys DON'T complicate things. It's important but I 
> > > don't think it's mandatory.
> > 
> > It is mandatory if you intend to make a release. I don't remember when
> > was the last time I grabbed a prgram that did not have a changelog file.
> > If there is one that did not have a changelog file, I would not be
> > taking it seriously.. since the author would imply that he is not
> > tracking its progress and so he is not serious enough.
> 
> Generating Changelog files is much much simpler than you think.  If you
> commit with meaningful 'log messages' (and this is very important for a
> number of other reasons already) you can simply run 'cvs2cl.pl' and it
> will do it all for ya :-) 
> 
>   http://www.red-bean.com/cvs2cl
> 
thanks for that. I'll check ;)

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