Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Mar 08 2016, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 05:23:46 +0100
>> 
>> >> Introduce code reviews. Don't give commit access to the "golden"
>> >> branches to everyone, just to a few top contributors and reviewers.
>> >
>> > We don't have manpower for that.
>> 
>> I find perplexing that we have manpower for reviewing ChangeLogs but not
>> for reviewing commit logs *instead*.
>
> I'm surprised that you find it perplexing.
>
> Log messages are much shorter than code diffs, and much simpler to
> read and understand.

Óscar was talking about reviewing the *commit message* instead of the
changelog, not about reviewing the entire commit (including the diff)
instead.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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