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: ChangeLog entry for ido.el Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:34:45 +0300 Message-ID: <83tyrrzc16.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83vdc7zhjc.fsf@gnu.org> <9C976B50-46B7-44DE-ADB2-614E62698AB3@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270381012 12015 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2010 11:36:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 11:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: John Wiegley Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 04 13:36:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NyO8F-0006vT-BT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:36:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51239 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NyO8E-0006OG-SR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:36:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NyO6s-0006DM-T3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34136 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NyO6r-0006Ch-A1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:35:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NyO6p-0004mE-Sx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:35:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:41609) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NyO6p-0004lr-LZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 07:35:19 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L0C00H00NZQ7400@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:34:47 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.92.42]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L0C00E1ZO5TMT60@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:34:47 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <9C976B50-46B7-44DE-ADB2-614E62698AB3@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123160 Archived-At: > From: John Wiegley > Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 06:33:00 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > On Apr 4, 2010, at 5:35 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > Are long entries such as the one below really appropriate for > > ChangeLog files? I don't think ChangeLog is a place to explain how > > things work; it would have been much better to move this description > > to ido.el itself, right where ido-use-virtual-buffers is defined. > > I wasn't sure about that, whether it's just to state a change or also add a short justification. I think your assessment is the more accurate. The log entry is indeed supposed to give a short summary, but that summary should be one or two lines.