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Re: [PATCH] Update contrib.texi
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 12:49:40 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update contrib.texi
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On 02/04/2014 04:19 AM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 03:31:04AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> since we retain authorship info in git, it should be easy to script it now
>> right ?
>
> I think we already script it (via ChangeLog instead of git history)
> for the release notes when we come up with a list of thanks for the
> release. contrib.texi has (and I believe is always meant to have) a
> more personal touch.
I agree. The personal touch is important.
FYI. For the release note we use git history e.g.
git shortlog --summary -w72 glibc-(Previous X.Y tag).. | sed -e 's,^.*\t,,g'
Cheers,
Carlos.