Re: ChangeLog (or lack of it)

["Leonardo F. Fontenelle" <leonardof gnome org>]

Em Sáb, 2008-08-30 às 23:25 +0100, Rui Gouveia escreveu:
> Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
> > 2008-08-30 klockan 23:51 skrev Leonardo F. Fontenelle:
> >   
> >> Not much; the ChangeLog usually exists, but with a message telling us
> >> not to change it. If at least there was an standard for that message, we
> >> could reliably automate the check.
> >>     
> >
> > Perhaps grepping for "^200" helps? If there is a line starting with "200" it
> > is likely to be a real ChangeLog file with timestamps.
> >   
> If you grep the last date used
> 
> $ head -n 1 ChangeLog | cut -d' ' -f1
> 2008-08-30
> 
> you can calculate how many days have elapsed since then, you can decide
> that if not updated for X days, it's obsolete.
> 

If a translator accidentally (eg. with a script) used the ChangeLog in
the usual way, there can be recent dates even if the ChangeLog is
deprecated. In fact, when a module (e. g. empathy) deprecates a
ChangeLog, it *removes* old content, so all dates will be new.

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Leonardo Fontenelle
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