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Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful
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Joseph Myers |
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Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful |
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Fri, 4 Aug 2017 17:29:14 +0000 |
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On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> ChangeLog entries are trivial and quick to write, and save so much
This whole proposal is because they are not at all trivial or quick to
write for the sorts of changes that are common in projects such as glibc
or GCC, which are very different from the small local changes illustrated
in the example ChangeLog entries in the GNU Coding Standards. They also
serve unnecessarily to isolate GNU from the broader free software
community and discourage people working on a wide range of free software
from contributing to GNU, by adding an additional GNU-specific format
people need to learn that isn't useful elsewhere, when many extremely
active free software projects such as the Linux kernel have evidently
found fully functional ways of understanding code history and achieving
the purposes of ChangeLogs without the ChangeLog format - ways which are
useful extremely broadly across free software rather than being
GNU-specific as ChangeLogs are.
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Joseph S. Myers
address@hidden
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, (continued)
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Giuseppe Scrivano, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Ludovic Courtès, 2017/08/05
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful,
Joseph Myers <=
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2017/08/06
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/07
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Karl Berry, 2017/08/04
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, John Darrington, 2017/08/05
- Re: Circumstances in which ChangeLog format is no longer useful, Joseph Myers, 2017/08/07