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Re: ChangeLog entry complexity
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- Cc: carlos at redhat dot com, pasky at ucw dot cz, roland at hack dot frob dot com, neleai at seznam dot cz, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 21:55:31 +0100
- Subject: Re: ChangeLog entry complexity
- References: <20130311214635 dot 5B9D32C08F at topped-with-meat dot com> <20130325164624 dot GA6137 at machine dot or dot cz> <51508192 dot 90702 at redhat dot com> <20130325 dot 130729 dot 668574637383532905 dot davem at davemloft dot net>
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:
> From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:55:46 -0400
>
>> Does anyone feel strongly that detailed change logs are limiting our
>> acceptance of new developers to the community?
>
> Let's take a real simple example.
>
> I figure out that internal function FOO no longer uses argument X,
> so I'm going to remove argument X from the interface.
>
> There are 1000 call sites.
>
> What value does that 1001 line ChangeLog entry provide?
There is just a single line that says "All callers changed".
Andreas.
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