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Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history
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John Wiegley |
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Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch) |
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Sun, 06 Mar 2016 13:52:04 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) |
On Sun, Mar 06 2016 13:07 (-0800), John Wiegley wrote:
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> I have always wanted to drop the ChangeLogs, so if the other developers agree,
> I'm all for it. Keeping ChangeLog style in the commit entry is not terribly
> useful either, since the diff output of log -p lets you know which function or
> variable is being modified. I've never missed not having that ChangeLog data
> in other projects, of any size. But that's up to the other developers and what
> makes their lives easier.
I'd like to open this up to discussion on emacs-devel, so that we hear from
our other developers. What do you all think about ChangeLogs, and their value
to you in your work on Emacs?
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- Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch),
John Wiegley <=
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch), Eric S. Raymond, 2016/03/06
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Uwe Brauer, 2016/03/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/08
- ChangeLog to *VC-log* (was: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?), Stephen Berman, 2016/03/08
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/03/08
- Re: ChangeLog to *VC-log*, Stephen Berman, 2016/03/08