Using the vcs_to_changelog.py script

[Simon Marchi]

On 2020-02-14 3:15 p.m., Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> So I think it would be good to have some guidelines about that.
> 
>> I would therefore suggest adding:
>>
>> - What's the problem you're trying to fix (compilation error?  if so please
>>   paste it in the commit log?)
>> - Why is this the right way to fix it?
> 
> Something like that, yes.  I'm saying that we should have this on the
> wiki.

I think it's already quite well addressed by this section in the contribution
checklist:

https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ContributionChecklist#Detailed_Explanation_of_the_Patch

Simon