Stop updating ChangeLog?

[Joseph Myers]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Yao Qi wrote:

> P.S. I found that this topic has been discussed several times in
> various projects (binutils, glibc, etc) without any conclusions.  I do
> hope we can make some progress this time :)

All those places are the wrong place for actually effecting any change 
other than (c) (generating ChangeLog files at release time having been 
permitted by the GNU Coding Standards for over 20 years).

The correct place for discussion of whether the ChangeLog format is useful 
generically for GNU projects is the bug-standards list, continuing the 
discussion that has been going on intermittently since I started it on 28 
July last year.  If that discussion results in a GCS change along the 
lines I proposed (that is, removing the requirement for ChangeLog format), 
then individual projects can consider what commit log format is most 
useful for them.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com