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: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:56:10 -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> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1467928898 31193 80.91.229.3 (7 Jul 2016 22:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 22:01:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rswgnu@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 08 00:01:29 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 1bLHMN-0002Xi-PM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2016 00:01:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42496 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLHMN-0006Jd-27 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 18:01:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46695) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLHHK-000752-4b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:56:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLHHI-0001nu-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:56:13 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33947) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLHHG-0001nK-Tm; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:56:10 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bLHHG-0007Vy-4N; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:56:10 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Robert Weiner on Wed, 6 Jul 2016 11:08:39 -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:205384 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. ]]] > I would be in favor of > grouping changes spanning multiple days together and using the final > date rather than having them split into separate entries by day. I'm in favor of that, too > I agree that having to provide secondary commentary in a commit log is > a pain and duplicative of effort but I don't have any suggestion for > solution on that. What does "secondary commentary" mean? A concise overall description of what that change does? That shouldn't be hard to write. -- 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.