On 1/29/21 3:22 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 8:59 AM Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:
On 1/29/21 2:31 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 1/29/21 2:17 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Thursday 2021-01-28 12:18, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
It's a pleasure to seed you guys flow and manage the python build infrastructure improvements (Matej and Ben).
There is nothing cool about this changelog entry. It disguises a change behind a modified movie title, and anyone who has not seen the movie is left to guess what that marketing lingo bingo word collection-look-alike is supposed to mean.
I agree with that and I actually wanted to say something similar but didn't want to look like a party pooper. Changelogs that don't contain any concise and comprehensible information are useless.
The whole point of changelogs is that anyone reading them immediately understands what got changed so they might get an idea whether one of the changes is the reason for a problem they have run into after an upgrade.
+1
Coolness is not a viable goal when writing changelog entries.
And why not? He's the changelog author. At least he's not being stupid and lazy like a lot of other people and straight up importing Git commit logs into changelogs.
In this particular case the changelog AFAICS describes a change in the .spec file. Information theory says that the amount of information (not data!) transferred during a communication is the amount of information the receiver is able to understand. Personally I can only make some vague assumptions about what "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love pytest" really means. Probably something related to using pytest in %check. But which former problem did it solve? The changelog is a communication over time with whoever takes over the package later. And this communication is sometimes full of insider jargon preventing new contributors from taking over. BTW: My personal opinion on dealing with upstream changes is to just add a note about new upstream version (as expressed before multiple times). Ciao, Michael.