Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 21:59:02 -0500
> 
> > 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?
> 
> I couldn't care less about ChangeLog *files*, really.
> 
> I think it makes sense to provide them in tarballs (to replace the Git
> metadata), but I've personally stopped using them years ago when "bzr
> log" started being fast enough.

We tried that, for a full year.  If it worked, we could continue using
it.  But it doesn't work, even when we have only one active branch.
So continuing using it is out of the question if we want to have the
files available in the tarballs.