From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 05:39:01 +0200 Message-ID: <834mchtz8q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <87vb4zb0i4.fsf@gnu.org> <837fheuu6a.fsf@gnu.org> <877fheb1rh.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87ziua9mwq.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83h9git36k.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb4y9ep9.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83a8mat2aa.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3fm9du0.fsf@wanadoo.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457408361 8023 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 03:39:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 03:39:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3scar?= Fuentes Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 04:39:16 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 1ad8UN-0005Vm-Ta for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 04:39:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59949 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad8UN-0008M5-9O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:39:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43227) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad8U5-0008Kv-KT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:38:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad8U2-0002Mp-F7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:38:57 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58411) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad8U2-0002MY-Bf; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:38:54 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2188 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ad8U1-0000CH-NX; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:38:54 -0500 In-reply-to: <87r3fm9du0.fsf@wanadoo.es> (message from =?iso-8859-1?Q?=D3s?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?car?= Fuentes on Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:29:27 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:201110 Archived-At: > From: Óscar Fuentes > Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:29:27 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> Of course I'm addressing the problem: ditch changelogs, require quality > >> log messages and put to good use our VC tool. > > > > Requiring something that is not enforceable, with mistakes that > > cannot be corrected, > > Introduce code reviews. Don't give commit access to the "golden" > branches to everyone, just to a few top contributors and reviewers. We don't have manpower for that.