sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

[Mike Frysinger]

On 13 Mar 2021 20:32, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > On 13 Mar 2021 18:38, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > > > > 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.
> 
> That's a different conclusions.  You asked what people are doing with
> the ChangeLogs, not whether it was mandatory to keep them.

that's fair.  my point/goal was that if there aren't requirements for it,
and there isn't a compelling use case for keeping them, then the easiest
thing is to do nothing and delete them.

it seems that there isn't a requirement ->
i'm skeptical that the logs add value as anyone who is going to contribute
by diving into the source history would be online w/git access ->
we punt the logs and stop wasting lots of developer time.
-mike