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 19:40:09 +0200 Message-ID: <83lh5srhqe.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <64a52598-ad53-498c-993c-67d7827dbdfc@default> <838u1uuuau.fsf@gnu.org> <878u1um2xl.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <87io0w6g7j.fsf@red-bean.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457458826 26959 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 17:40:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 17:40:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kfogel@red-bean.com, larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 18:40:21 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 1adLcF-0000m5-33 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:40:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36276 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adLcB-0008Eb-BF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 12:40:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39832) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adLc7-0008Cq-Ln for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 12:40:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adLc5-0005TJ-JO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 12:40:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44093) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adLc1-0005PW-Dz; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 12:40:01 -0500 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2927 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1adLc0-00040a-LG; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 12:40:01 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from John Wiegley on Tue, 08 Mar 2016 09:21:20 -0800) 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:201184 Archived-At: > From: John Wiegley > Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 09:21:20 -0800 > Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > >>>>> Karl Fogel writes: > > > So the only remaining question is about where information should be stored > > (and, if there is duplication, whether that duplication should be maintained > > manually or automatically). The question of what the information looks like > > is, I hope, already settled. > > Yes, I was only mentioning it for the sake of completeness. We have already > accomplished the second bullet of option #2, and have no intention of changing > that, as it does have a positive impact on our commit message quality. Just to put the record straight: we've been using the ChangeLog format in the commit log message since forever, certainly during the CVS days. It's not a recent invention in any way.