From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ChangeLogs in the elpa branch
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 07:46:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d3enpluw.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87r533mxtq.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org
on Mon Sep 26 2011, Julien Danjou <julien-AT-danjou.info> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26 2011, Michael Albinus wrote:
>
>> | revno: 131
>> | committer: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
>> | branch nick: elpa
>> | timestamp: Sun 2011-09-25 21:33:06 -0400
>> | message:
>> | Remove ChangeLogs; use "bzr log" instead
>>
>> Is this necessary? I find the ChangeLogs helpful, especially for the
>> debbugs package which is still actively developped.
>
> FTR, I don't know if it's necessary, but Changelogs are just duplication
> of information, so I'm on Stefan side on this one. :)
ChangeLogs that are just duplication of information are useless, but not
all ChangeLogs are like that. Some maintainers use ChangeLogs to
highlight out the changes that they think are relevant to their users.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-26 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-26 7:09 ChangeLogs in the elpa branch Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 9:56 ` Julien Danjou
2011-09-26 10:23 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 10:35 ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 14:23 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 16:49 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-09-26 21:13 ` Richard Stallman
2011-09-26 11:46 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2011-09-26 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 13:49 ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 16:26 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-26 16:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-26 19:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-26 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-26 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-26 21:18 ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-26 21:27 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-09-27 3:10 ` Michael Albinus
2011-09-27 5:22 ` Bastien
2011-09-27 8:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-09-27 9:04 ` Bastien
2011-09-27 9:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-09-27 13:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-27 7:10 ` Glenn Morris
2011-09-27 9:05 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-27 9:45 ` joakim
2011-09-27 12:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-09-27 13:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-09-27 9:00 ` Juanma Barranquero
2011-09-27 12:24 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
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