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 17:57:34 -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> <8337nmn2pd.fsf@gnu.org> <87shvmem2c.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 1467928805 29963 80.91.229.3 (7 Jul 2016 22:00:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 22:00:05 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 07 23:59:55 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 1bLHKt-0001Ya-0S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 23:59:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42481 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLHKs-0002xy-4N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47714) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLHIe-0001M9-Tl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:57:37 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLHId-0002O4-5y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:57:35 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33998) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bLHId-0002Nz-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:57:35 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bLHIc-0007ld-1M; Thu, 07 Jul 2016 17:57:34 -0400 In-reply-to: <87shvmem2c.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Wed, 06 Jul 2016 13:03:07 -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:205383 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. ]]] > EZ> What format do you suggest instead? > "Summary line. > Details..." > Where the Details can be in the current or another format or whatever > works for the contributor. That's exactly the opposite of what we need. These records will be read by hundreds of people. We need them to be kept in a uniform way to make them reliable. The per-file summary would be available from > the pull request system, regardless of the formatting of the commit message. What exactly would be "available from" that system? What does the material look like? Is it hand-written or auto-generated? -- 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.