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bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?
From: |
Eric S. Raymond |
Subject: |
bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? |
Date: |
Sun, 6 Mar 2016 20:19:58 -0500 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
Mathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>:
> On a more spiritual side, I think they belong to the zen of contributing
> to a GNU project. :)
Dear Goddess, I hope you're joking.
Speaking as a very, *very* long-time GNU contributor (I'm pretty sure
my earliest Emacs patches predated the formation of the FSF), I
consider ChangeLogs a relic of a bygone era.
Changelogs made some sense as a way of grouping together what we now
call a changeset back in the days of file-oriented version-control
systems. Nowadays, set against the actual changeset comments in
version-control histories, Changelogs are a pointless and duplicative
ritual.
I think we should have dispensed with this practice during the CVS-to-bzr
transition. As it is, the sooner gone the better. It's not as if retaining
arbitrary hoops for new developers to have to jump through is a *good* idea.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
- bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch, (continued)
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- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch), Eric S. Raymond, 2016/03/06
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- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch), Drew Adams, 2016/03/06
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- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Drew Adams, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Mathieu Lirzin, 2016/03/06
- bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?,
Eric S. Raymond <=
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bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch, Glenn Morris, 2016/03/08
bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/07
bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/08
bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/08