Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Wed, 06 Jul 2016 18:36:38 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:20:07 -0400
>> 
>> Currently, I think ChangeLogs are a barrier to contribution. The vast
>> majority of other software projects don't use them.

EZ> We don't have ChangeLogs anymore.  So I'm not sure what is this about,
EZ> please clarify.

ChangeLog-style formatting. Sorry. I was talking about the benefits and
reasons for having that specific format and the problems from when the
format is not followed (bad formatting, misspellings, etc.)

I was trying to say that using a pull request system would reduce the
need for writing every commit message as if it was going into a
ChangeLog, and would give better assurance that mistakes are caught
before they get merged. It has many other benefits (code review,
community feedback) but I was commenting specifically for ChangeLogs,
following up to an old message. I hope that's more clear.

Ted