[Zope-dev] Re: Extend specification of how to maintain the changelog

[Tres Seaver]

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Christian Theune wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:09:17PM +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote:
>> [...] 
>> If I know I normally only have to check the bottom (or top) of each
>> section to see whether something got added since last time I checked,
>> there's less chance I'll miss it and make a mistake.
>>
>> It's not a major point, but it'd be nice if everybody acted more or
>> less the same instead of changelog sections growing from both ends.
> 
> Sure. It's not the major target group either. During development I tend to use
> SVN to find the changes since last time I looked.
> 
> Between releases the ordering is mostly important on the release level, not
> inside as releases are the atomic step for people to update to.
> 
> My preference would be to have more important changes first.

Please don't make it a judgement call:  keep it time-descending order,
just like the releases.  Among other things, this makes merge conflicts
more obvious, and easier to to fix.


Tres.
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