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Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?
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> Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 16:04:26 -0500
> From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
> 
> 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.