From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Wiegley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? 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[76.234.68.79]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o22sm212617pfa.15.2016.07.06.19.44.47 for (version=TLS1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 06 Jul 2016 19:44:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Original-From: "John Wiegley" Original-Received: by Vulcan.local (Postfix, from userid 501) id C856C10079CA; Wed, 6 Jul 2016 19:44:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87oa6adz3w.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Wed, 06 Jul 2016 21:18:59 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130014 (Ma Gnus v0.14) Emacs/25.0.95 (darwin) Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c03::229 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:205296 Archived-At: >>>>> Ted Zlatanov writes: JW> If writing a ChangeLog entry to describe a change increases the time spent JW> crafting a patch by 10%, and if this loses a contributor who would have JW> otherwise sent us code, I'm forced to wonder in what other ways have JW> they've been hasty, such that working on the commit message was too much JW> for them. > I disagree with this. Processes such as the one here are learned behavior, > not something that identifies good vs. bad programmers. You are right, of course, Ted, I'll remove that from my thinking as an indicator of sloppiness. :) -- John Wiegley GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F http://newartisans.com 60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2