[PATCH] sim: ChangeLog: move arch-specific entries into the arch dir
Andrew Burgess
andrew.burgess@embecosm.com
Mon Jan 11 11:10:27 GMT 2021
* Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca> [2021-01-09 12:02:23 -0500]:
> On 2021-01-08 4:57 a.m., Andrew Burgess wrote:
> > * Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com> [2021-01-07 13:57:14 -0700]:
> >
> >> Mike> merging them into one causes extra pain due to conflicts. having sep
> >> Mike> arch ones alleviates that a little as you don't normally have people
> >> Mike> working on the same arch at the same time.
> >>
> >> Mike> ideally we'd throw away these archaic ChangeLog files entirely. they
> >> Mike> are a huge waste of time for everyone and would be much better served
> >> Mike> writing proper git commit messages. it isn't the 80s/90s anymore.
> >>
> >> I'm +1 on that, but other maintainers like them, so we've been keeping
> >> them around.
> >
> > For the record I see them as a waste of time too.
>
> Well, I'm not a maintainer of the sim project, but the maintainers of
> the sim project could decide to not do ChangeLogs anymore.
If sim/ was released as a separate project then sure, but while it's
released as part of GDB I'd rather we just copied the policies of
gdb/.
Thanks,
Andrew
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