Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 07/08/2016 06:25 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>

> > You rarely are interested on the whole file. vc-region-history makes
> > wonders when you care about part of the file (a function, for instance.)
>
> That's "git log -L" that I mentioned.  It's startup time is not
> negligible.

Personally, I've never found vc-region-history too useful (as opposed to 
e.g. vc-annotate).

> > Besides, having to jump to the bug is a nuisance
> > (some people mentioned that having the ChangeLogs readily available on
> > the tarballs is an advantage.) It is not necessary to duplicate the
> > whole discussion, but briefly mentioning what the problem was and why it
> > was decided to solve it this way would be helpful.
>
> This request is unreasonable.  If nothing else, it will make the bar
> for contributing higher, not lower.  The information is recorded in
> the bug discussion, and there's no need to reproduce it in the log
> message.

We do encourage that, actually, though not require (bar for 
contributing, etc). This can be especially useful when the issue is 
not-to-complex, but the bug discussion is long.

Mentioned near "rationale for a change" in CONTRIBUTE.