Re: Using VC for change descriptions

[Paul Eggert]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> Perhaps it would be good to do an experiment.

Although experimenting sounds good, the experiment you propose sounds like a lot 
of labor. It will be hard to find motivation to work on a gedanken ChangeLog 
project like that, and even if the experiment succeeds for one person that does 
not mean that it will work well in a group project.

Instead, I suggest that we temporarily experiment with a real GNU project: that 
is, we issue a special dispensation just for that project, where it can try out 
the proposed guidelines for a few months, and then we look at how well the 
proposal worked in that project.

I suggest the GNU C Library as the place to conduct this experiment, as it has a 
reasonable amount of activity and its maintainers are eager to try this sort of 
thing out.