From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:26:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <56BE7E37.3090708@cs.ucla.edu> <4hd1rw1ubr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <83vb50wxhv.fsf@gnu.org> <87y49vz4cg.fsf@acer.localhost.com> <64a52598-ad53-498c-993c-67d7827dbdfc@default> <838u1uuuau.fsf@gnu.org> <878u1um2xl.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <83egbmt2on.fsf@gnu.org> <87vb4ykn17.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <838u1ut22y.fsf@gnu.org> <87pov6kmfe.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> <8360wxtz9r.fsf@gnu.org> <87twkhef7h.fsf@vostro.rath.org> <83k2ldrmdj.fsf@gnu.org> <87mvq954pl.fsf@thinkpad.rath.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457454659 19829 80.91.229.3 (8 Mar 2016 16:30:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 16:30:59 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 17:30:53 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 1adKX2-0007VE-HC for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:30:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKX2-0005bm-13 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:30:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46468) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKWT-0005OP-8C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:30:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKWO-0000tr-Vn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:30:13 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1adKWO-0000sZ-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 11:30:08 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1adKWK-0006vj-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:30:04 +0100 Original-Received: from 157-52-15-125.cpe.teksavvy.com ([157-52-15-125.cpe.teksavvy.com]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:30:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 157-52-15-125.cpe.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Mar 2016 17:30:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 157-52-15-125.cpe.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zK46dRIY+zcLvl6Zen9w7EBpWG0= 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:201169 Archived-At: > In that case I agree. However, this practice has the distinct > disadvantage that a patch's submitter does not show up as the author of > the commit. But that's a different discussion. Normally the committer should setup the "Author:" info properly (and if the commit message is auto-extracted from the ChangeLog file, this should happen automatically by extracting the author's name from the ChangeLog), so the author is properly recorded in the VCS (even if he's not the committer). Stefan