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Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful
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Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Aug 2017 16:12:30 -0400 |
> ChangeLog entries are trivial and quick to write, and save so much
> time in the future. The small repetiveness is a insignificant price
> to pay for the benefit of the ChangeLog file in various forms.
Repetiveness, even if small, is still a bad thing when a computer can do
the task for you.
They cannot be generated by a computer. Your remainder points do not
address how ChangeLog entries are a bad thing, rather they show that
git or current tooling around git is unsuitable for handling them
nothing else.
Cloning a repository is the de facto way of distributing source
code nowadays.
For the GNU project this is clearly false, our prefered way is to
distribute tarballs.
Maintaining ChangeLogs is a waste of time both for
the developers writing them and for whoever is going to use it.
Since maintainers and users clearly find them useful, calling it a
waste of time is just a silly and dishonest argument.
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Rical Jasan, 2017/08/01
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2017/08/01
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Rical Jasan, 2017/08/01
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/01
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful,
Alfred M. Szmidt <=
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/08/05
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2017/08/06
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/07
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Karl Berry, 2017/08/04