sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

[Mike Frysinger]

On 13 Mar 2021 18:38, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:26:11 -0500
> > From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, andrew.burgess@embecosm.com
> > 
> > > So people who don't have Git will be left without the logs?  I'm not
> > > sure I'm okay with that.
> > 
> > what value are people actually pulling from these ?  we aren't talking
> > about user-focused NEWS, we're talking about developer-focused ChangeLog.
> 
> This has been beaten to death in various forums, including GNU
> internal ones.  the conclusion was that some people want that, and
> some developers are not always on-line and with Git repo handy.

the conclusion is that GNU standards made recommendations, but individual
projects can pick between them.

> > the hard & bikeshed part is what form does the log take.  do you just want
> > the default `git log` output ?
> 
> There's a Gnulib script which will produce the form that matches the
> ChangeLog format.

there's actually multiple gnulib scripts.  which one are you referring to ?
gitlog-to-changelog ?
-mike