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Re: ChangeLog entry complexity
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh dot poyarekar at gmail dot com>
- To: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>, normalperson at yhbt dot net, carlos at redhat dot com, pasky at ucw dot cz, Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>, neleai at seznam dot cz
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2013 17:12:55 +0530
- Subject: Re: ChangeLog entry complexity
- References: <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1303271427040 dot 23096 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <20130327 dot 122444 dot 1693913000175389808 dot davem at davemloft dot net> <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1303271628190 dot 23096 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <20130327 dot 125821 dot 1593463415239280090 dot davem at davemloft dot net> <Pine dot LNX dot 4 dot 64 dot 1303271701550 dot 23096 at digraph dot polyomino dot org dot uk> <20130328043009 dot GB17540 at spoyarek dot pnq dot redhat dot com> <5154F3AB dot 6030808 at archlinux dot org>
On 29 March 2013 07:21, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org> wrote:
> Cons:
> Resources spent on writing/editing ChangeLog entries
> Merging is more difficult
> git log/blame is "equivalent"
> Makes refactoring difficult (long ChangeLog entries)
> Do not provide detail needed to understand the change (why/how)
> ChangeLogs are incomplete
- Artificially raises the bar for ad hoc contributions
Siddhesh
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