From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: 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 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20160306220502.GA23154@thyrsus.com> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457301962 13056 80.91.229.3 (6 Mar 2016 22:06:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 22:06:02 +0000 (UTC) To: Emacs developers , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , 21998@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 06 23:05:55 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1acgoE-0002mR-MZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 23:05:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acgoE-00085Z-2k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 17:05:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32869) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acgnw-0007k2-1J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 17:05:37 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acgns-0001et-Ro for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 17:05:35 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:44326 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1acgns-0001ek-GO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2016 17:05:32 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0BD5D13A0476; Sun, 6 Mar 2016 17:05:02 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:201024 Archived-At: --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable John Wiegley : > On Sun, Mar 06 2016 13:07 (-0800), John Wiegley wrote: > >=20 > > 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 terr= ibly > > useful either, since the diff output of log -p lets you know which func= tion 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 a= nd what > > makes their lives easier. >=20 > I'd like to open this up to discussion on emacs-devel, so that we hear fr= om > our other developers. What do you all think about ChangeLogs, and their v= alue > to you in your work on Emacs? I advocated dropping ChangeLogs at the time I did the repository conversion. That is still my position. --=20 Eric S. Raymond --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIVAwUBVtypjezIII+MbHONAQLexA//VPtjdKLwZ6k0QoC4lNefkdLiVDSR4RAt 5O7hHJs4xVQ/ms4IJuMaE+Nz42ou7AIvXsF9n9liRiD7WPxpDN5TC/XwBUDAn4rc O7zx5uWYQE+B+vmCiZxBIzH+vSWk+/RG9zdYOvAWw6Hd1E7rwIc//cZg2PpKBgeS 0PRBgktDNIa9SUqTX5xXj2ZBJdpW3wsMOWxVZO1O7vGB20HDzAMMh7fUeVRnyzYq sq7sZZ2lx+TbsbjBcyn3Q+stfq2nVs4JICDXXZwNw5ExYtqoaixBP9hhQ2gJvZdd o2Aw+5/lWNloUl7ReRDnoBHW2HWy4kcUX89ZhlpydRC9tQi+v+5Zdg5lEF0EtH7I LHvsrn9k9Tiz9CwSnfD7pt6SMtClhBtX32pwunF5MYSx0twjenCLP0G208B9VHzf O2H5vJzCwZCnax5FrBywe64vQAAEftnAIpB0XDpTR9P2hNxancU5q4JLxbsE5Nk0 EC8tZS+6prmnmw4D9bMndNMvIRjL1bscehJir0grKLC4vPddnmBZCGkdo/v5cx1c OEsPN+00JVGJtrCI9UgZ8YgYTieW3pneRtiRl0hPUz6c2rDfL9JZBDsjAxVwUeha o96gVpLbRScxlHzwAbDHVmBsSfj8Ah52J3XEcyDtNSHjYf6cjch1TCJswpknORb5 +MuQLOZC39s= =P2XT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--