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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "John Wiegley" <johnw@gnu.org>
Cc: 21998@debbugs.gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 19:00:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83si02te8a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2pov66ybf.fsf@newartisans.com> (message from John Wiegley on Mon, 07 Mar 2016 08:35:16 -0800)

> From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  21998@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 08:35:16 -0800
> 
> >>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >   . Keep the current system, where ChangeLog is produced from Git log
> >     and mistakes made in Git log should be corrected manually after
> >     producing ChangeLog
> 
> If you really do want to keep ChangeLogs around, I'd prefer this over the
> third option.

That's the system we tried for the past year, and it clearly failed.
Why should we continue to invest good money after bad money?

Is it really that hard to copy/paste an entry from the ChangeLog to
Git log, or the other way around?





  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-07 17:00 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
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 [this message]
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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