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: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 23:14:51 +0200 Message-ID: <83d1r6t2gk.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <64a52598-ad53-498c-993c-67d7827dbdfc@default> <838u1uuuau.fsf@gnu.org> <878u1um2xl.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <20160307210426.GA4539@thyrsus.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457385301 14824 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2016 21:15:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 21:15:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: esr@thyrsus.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 07 22:14:57 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 1ad2UR-0003xA-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 22:14:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58631 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad2UQ-0005ih-OB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:14:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52654) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad2UM-0005fp-Ii for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:14:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad2UH-0000B7-KP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:14:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52150) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad2UH-0000B3-Gw; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:14:45 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:1743 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ad2UG-0004H3-NY; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:14:45 -0500 In-reply-to: <20160307210426.GA4539@thyrsus.com> (esr@thyrsus.com) 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:201077 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:04:26 -0500 > From: "Eric S. Raymond" > > ChangeLogs are *absurd* under present-day conditions. They are functional > only as a kind of tribal commitment signal. Sorry, that's not a relevant response. You are not addressing any of the problems in the current system that I brought up.