sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs
Eli Zaretskii
eliz@gnu.org
Wed Mar 17 13:14:05 GMT 2021
> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 02:07:46 -0400
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, andrew.burgess@embecosm.com
>
> > 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 ->
Indeed, there's no mandatory requirement to keep the files, not
anymore.
> 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.
I'm not sure I agree with your skepticism. And OTOH, producing the
ChangeLog from Git logs takes mere seconds and wastes no development
time. So I think on balance there's very little price to pay for
something that some people may value. Why refuse to pay that small
price and humor those few people?
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