From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 23:19:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87mvqa9bjc.fsf@wanadoo.es> 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> <56DDF901.1080600@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457389189 11453 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2016 22:19:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 22:19:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 07 23:19:34 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 1ad3Uz-0002GB-3C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 23:19:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58962 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3Uy-0007qd-Df for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:19:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44390) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3Uk-0007qW-Fl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:19:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3Ug-00013d-ES for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:19:18 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:39034) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3Ug-00013S-8H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 17:19:14 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ad3Ub-0001zs-8a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 23:19:09 +0100 Original-Received: from 151.red-79-153-146.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([79.153.146.151]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 23:19:09 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 151.red-79-153-146.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Mar 2016 23:19:09 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.red-79-153-146.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MK8Lf8fyhSuQnETt7Kuy5eNiY80= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:201092 Archived-At: Clément Pit--Claudel writes: >> Introduce code reviews. Don't give commit access to the "golden" >> branches to everyone, just to a few top contributors and reviewers. > > Wouldn't that be a very big change in the way Emacs development works, > much bigger than deciding for or against Changelogs? Not really. Emacs always accepted patches from casual contributors. Another option for correcting errors on commit logs is `git notes', but I don't know about its implications.