From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:25:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <87twg2g86g.fsf@lifelogs.com> <83eg76n5h5.fsf@gnu.org> <87y45eeoor.fsf@lifelogs.com> <577D42BB.1020500@cs.ucla.edu> <87oa694rfw.fsf@russet.org.uk> <837fcxlbay.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh1d2wg5.fsf@russet.org.uk> <83eg75jk5h.fsf@gnu.org> <87lh1cb6p0.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87d1mma0av.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1468160797 24318 80.91.229.3 (10 Jul 2016 14:26:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 14:26:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 10 16:26:27 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 1bMFgg-0005sM-Np for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 16:26:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55378 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMFgc-0000Zl-Oe for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:26:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58986) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMFfs-0000UY-3d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:25:36 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMFfq-0004BQ-40 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:25:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56330) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bMFfp-0004B5-SV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:25:33 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bMFfn-0000Uq-Nt; Sun, 10 Jul 2016 10:25:31 -0400 In-reply-to: <87d1mma0av.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Sat, 09 Jul 2016 18:55:52 -0400) 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: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:205493 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > You're right, of course. But I wasn't saying the program would do the > entire job. It will know *what* has changed and provide a place to enter > the *why* messages. Then the code reviewer will require those messages > before approving the merge. That's essentially what ChangeLogs do, but > this will be in a structured format so it's easier to index and analyze > the data. That sounds like an idea worth trying to implement. If it works well, it could indeed be helpful. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.