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Re: Consensus on ChangeLog entries for generated files
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 20:29, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > Ulrich, your commit 39adf059fccb7333f61a488d73172b0d8aa2d580 removed some
> > ChangeLog entries for generated files:
>
> That's nonsense, complete utter nonsense. For 20 years it is practice
> to not have this useless information in the ChangeLog. It's just
> wasting space.
You are welcome to argue for a change in convention, but Roland said in
<http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2012-02/msg00581.html> that it was
well-established to have such entries and the other two people in that
discussion, Carlos and I, preferred the convention of having them.
So right now we have a documented convention, with consensus in a recent
discussion, that such entries are used. If someone disagrees with such
development conventions they need to enter into discussion seeking to
change the consensus, and to follow the conventions (despite disagreeing
with them) unless and until consensus does change; just undoing changes
that are supported by consensus or just ignoring the consensus in one's
own commits is a recipe for chaos.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com