A couple of people have certified me as Apprentice. The strange thing is that I don’t know the people who did this. I did email with Raphael about his article but I have never been in touch with sh and claudio. But thanks to them I was able to add my little reply to the article. Thanks.

So I guess I should now strive to acquire the skills and standing in the community to make more significant contributions and find an individual mentor or a community that helps me to gain these skills.

Fun :)

I wanted to post a comment to the ChangeLog and CVS article but since I am not yet certified I couldn’t post it there so here is my small contribution to that article:

When the only thing you have is a cvs log then you might be interested in the cvs2cl.pl CVS-log-message-to-ChangeLog conversion script by Karl Fogel. You should run this little utility once before you ‘release’ or ‘distribute’ your code. It creates very very nice ChangeLog entries. The ChangeLog file that it generates shows precisly who changed what file. And if everybody provides a good commit log entry you never have to worry about when, who made what change to which part of the code.