Stop updating ChangeLog?

[Joseph Myers]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2018, Yao Qi wrote:

> Joseph,
> The format of ChangLog entry is out of the scope of this discussion.
> IMO, each project is free to choose whether to write changelog entry
> or not (either in commit log or ChangeLog file).  Some GNU projects

I don't believe they are so free (yet).  The current (and problematic) GCS 
requirement, that I've been trying to get changed, is for ChangeLog files 
in releases, using a particular format (which I don't think is a good 
format since it forces description at the level of changed to individual 
files and named entities therein, which closely duplicates the information 
in the diffs themselves) - the projects may choose whether that's a 
checked-in file or generated automatically.

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Joseph S. Myers
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