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Re: Stop updating ChangeLog?
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GDB <gdb at sourceware dot org>, GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 19:04:03 +0000
- Subject: Re: Stop updating ChangeLog?
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On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Yao Qi wrote:
> P.S. I found that this topic has been discussed several times in
> various projects (binutils, glibc, etc) without any conclusions. I do
> hope we can make some progress this time :)
All those places are the wrong place for actually effecting any change
other than (c) (generating ChangeLog files at release time having been
permitted by the GNU Coding Standards for over 20 years).
The correct place for discussion of whether the ChangeLog format is useful
generically for GNU projects is the bug-standards list, continuing the
discussion that has been going on intermittently since I started it on 28
July last year. If that discussion results in a GCS change along the
lines I proposed (that is, removing the requirement for ChangeLog format),
then individual projects can consider what commit log format is most
useful for them.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com