Re: git log -> changelog

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

* Eric Blake wrote on Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 11:23:57PM CEST:
> The git pages are clear that S-O-B has project-dependent
> interpretation.  Coreutils currently doesn't even use it (the only
> people with commit privileges to the master coreutils.git have FSF
> copyright, and it is assumed that they are each trustworthy enough
> to do due diligence in verifying that patches from other
> contributors meet copyright rules, without relying on any markup in
> the commit message itself).
> 
> But if we wanted, we could adopt a policy that S-O-B on GNU projects
> using the gitlog-to-changelog conversion implies (partial)
> authorship, above and beyond the --author.

Except that the autotools project logs contain lots of S-O-B entries
which explicitly do not have that particular meaning.  :-/

Cheers,
Ralf