Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > You're right, of course. But I wasn't saying the program would do the
  > entire job. It will know *what* has changed and provide a place to enter
  > the *why* messages. Then the code reviewer will require those messages
  > before approving the merge. That's essentially what ChangeLogs do, but
  > this will be in a structured format so it's easier to index and analyze
  > the data.

That sounds like an idea worth trying to implement.
If it works well, it could indeed be helpful.

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