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Re: Automating the maintenance of the ChangeLog file
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> any change would require arguing with GNU upper management who may be
> even more attached to them than some of us are.
We *have* agreement from GNU upper management to allow not using the
existing ChangeLog format (and, thus, have no entity-level descriptions of
the individual pieces of the changes unless the patch author thinks such a
description is useful in a particular case), *if* the list of changed
entities can be generated from the commits reliably enough. (I failed to
persuade RMS that the list of named entities for a commit is not
significantly useful because in practice the problem you tend to have in
development is the inverse one - given an entity you're looking at for
some reason, identify past changes to it - which git tools already have
various ways to address.)
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2018-05/msg00003.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2018-05/msg00011.html
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