policy on splitting ChangeLogs?

[Stan Shebs]

On 3/19/12 5:48 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> i'd like to split up a ChangeLog to push arch-specific pieces into subdirs
> rather than having the common ChangeLog be clogged with non-common changes.
> is there a policy governing this ?  or should i just cut all the relevant
> pieces out of the common one and paste it into the subdir and be done ?
>

That's a decision left up to maintainers.  In general, I've come to 
favor having fewer ChangeLog files, as with the ubiquity of public 
source-control systems, the manually-maintained logs are coming to seem 
more like an anachronism left over from pre-Internet days, and reducing 
the number is one way to spend less time and effort on managing them.  
Also, if you do per-arch logs, then you've forced everybody making a 
cross-arch change into editing dozens of ChangeLogs.  So while as 
cross-platform types, we love to separate things into subdirs, I think 
this is one case where it will come to seem like more of a nuisance than 
a benefit.

Stan