From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark H Weaver Subject: Re: none Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:17:25 -0500 Message-ID: <87fvnxy1nu.fsf@netris.org> References: <1391526759-18655-1-git-send-email-jmd@gnu.org> <87ha8ebo68.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48628) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WB5An-0007pp-Tp for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:18:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WB5Ah-0005rm-QR for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:18:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87ha8ebo68.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Tue, 04 Feb 2014 21:47:27 +0100") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, John Darrington ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=C3=A8s) writes: > John Darrington skribis: > >> In my opinion the changelog conventions are achronistic, unintuitive, >> and bring benefit neither to developers nor users. > > Well, opinions may vary. > > It benefits me when I review other people=E2=80=99s patches, because it h= elps me > understand the structure of the change. And it benefits me before I > commit something, because it forces me to review all of my patch, make > sure it=E2=80=99s consistent, make sure there=E2=80=99s no leftover, and = giving me an > opportunity to add comments to code that appears non-obvious in > hindsight. I also find them very useful when digging through (possibly ancient) commit history. Although all the information is in the actual patch, when looking through many commits it is much more convenient to read a summary of the changes. One summary line is not enough detail. Of course, it's extra work to write these summaries, but IMO it's worthwhile. Mark > I think the rationale at > still > holds. > > Ludo=E2=80=99.