Re: April 7 cutover for generating ChangeLog automatically

[Paul Eggert]

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >   - If the commit has authors other than yourself, the commit message should
> > >contain a separate line like the following:
> > >    Co-authored-by: Joe Schmoe<address@hidden>
> Can't we just use "Author: Joe <joe>, Jane <jane>" ?
>
> > >  - If the commit is a tiny change that is exempt from copyright paperwork,
> > >the commit message should contain a separate line like the following:
> > >    Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
> How are we supposed to remember this one (and make sure it's typed
> correctly)?
> Could we use "Author: Joe <joe> (tiny change)"?

I don't see why not.  I suppose someone could modify the 
build-aux/gitlog-to-changelog script to do both things.  That script is copied 
from Gnulib -- I didn't change it.  I'll CC: this to Jim Meyering (who wrote 
that script) to see what he thinks about the suggestion.

Jim, the context is that we're converting Emacs to generate ChangeLog files 
automatically, like coreutils etc. do.  Please see this thread:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-03/msg01045.html