ChangeLog entry complexity

[Jeff Law]

On 03/11/2013 04:31 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On 03/11/2013 05:46 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
>> My feeling is that it's a pretty good proxy for the level of attention to
>> detail that we want to instill in all our contributors anyway.  So I think
>> the idea that being loose about this usefully lowers the barrier to entry
>> for new contributors is a false economy.
>
> Agreed.
>
> Even if I agreed that the ChangeLog file was useless I'd still want
> to require the same level of structured change documentation for
> a project of this type. So why change one for the other? Let us stay
> with detailed ChangeLogs.
Any thoughts on keeping the ChangeLog formatting, but just putting it in 
the commit message and generating the ChangeLog from commit messages?

Other projects have already made that switch and it makes a hell of a 
lot of sense to me.

jeff