From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
21998@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 17:05:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160306220502.GA23154__934.449132955883$1457302004$gmane$org@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2oaarxojf.fsf_-_@newartisans.com>
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John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Mar 06 2016 13:07 (-0800), John Wiegley wrote:
> >
> > 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?
I advocated dropping ChangeLogs at the time I did the repository conversion.
That is still my position.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-06 22:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-23 19:08 bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch Glenn Morris
2016-02-13 0:52 ` Paul Eggert
2016-02-16 16:41 ` Glenn Morris
2016-02-16 17:54 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-04 16:46 ` Glenn Morris
2016-03-05 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-06 9:47 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-06 18:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-03-06 21:07 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-06 21:25 ` Ingo Lohmar
2016-03-06 21:52 ` bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch) John Wiegley
[not found] ` <m2oaarxojf.fsf_-_@newartisans.com>
2016-03-06 22:05 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2016-03-06 22:34 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-06 23:06 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <64a52598-ad53-498c-993c-67d7827dbdfc@default>
2016-03-07 0:15 ` bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? John Wiegley
[not found] ` <m2io0zw3cd.fsf@newartisans.com>
2016-03-07 0:24 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-07 0:22 ` Mathieu Lirzin
[not found] ` <87vb4zb0i4.fsf@gnu.org>
2016-03-07 1:19 ` Eric S. Raymond
2016-03-07 9:29 ` Alan Mackenzie
[not found] ` <56DCB064.9060206@cs.ucla.edu>
2016-03-07 16:26 ` bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch) Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-08 7:32 ` bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch Glenn Morris
2016-03-08 16:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-07 6:51 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-07 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-07 16:35 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-07 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-07 17:51 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-08 18:23 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-08 18:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-09 16:38 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-09 16:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-10 21:23 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-11 8:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 10:05 ` Nicolas Petton
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