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Re: Update copyright dates not handled by scripts/update-copyrights [committed]
- From: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2017 16:08:27 +0100
- Subject: Re: Update copyright dates not handled by scripts/update-copyrights [committed]
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On Sun, 2017-01-01 at 04:57 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> even better: let's delete them and be done.
Yes, please.
The last discussion of this that I saw was in August 2015. When Mike
proposed to get rid of Changelogs back then, there weren't any reasons
given in response why we would still need to maintain them (sorry if I
missed any); only Andreas mentioned that a tarball release wouldn't have
them.
To me personally, Changelogs are write-only data -- meaning they have no
value for me, and are just overhead. It's not a challenging task for
sure, but you have to pay attention to not make little stupid mistakes,
and I find myself just writing short information there like
* file (function): Adapt.
I'd much rather see us putting all the time required for the changelog
into actually improving the commit message (ie, the reasons for applying
the patch).
Can we please again compare the time we spend on maintaining changelogs
against the time we potentially gain for ... well, something that hasn't
been mentioned in the 2015 discussion? I suspect the effort spent is
much bigger than the gain.