sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

[Luis Machado]

Hi Joel,

On 3/31/21 12:27 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
>>>>> No the second proposes to replace the current ChangeLog with one
>>>>> auto-generated upon release.
>>>>>
>>>>> This ChangeLog would in effect be a reformatted `git log` output.
>>>>
>>>> I don't object to that, either.  The question is: what we will require
>>>> the Git log messages to contain then?  Currently, the entire ChangeLog
>>>> entry goes there, but once the manually written ChangeLog files are
>>>> retired, what will remain?  That was the crux of the recent
>>>> discussion.
>>>
>>> we won't require the ChangeLog-like entries in the commit message for sim/.
>>> the generated ChangeLog will have name+date+git log.
>>
>> i wanted to give time for people to respond & post any thoughts that they
>> might have lingering before i moved forward.  since things have gone quiet
>> now, i guess we've reached the end?  so i'll give another few days before
>> i land the change for sim/.
> 
> Can you hold off on this for now? We're discussing it within the group
> of GDB Global Maintainers, and we need more time to converge.
> 

Out of curiosity, is the discussion specifically focused on sim/ or 
should we address the bigger issue of ChangeLog's within the GDB codebase?