ChangeLog entry complexity

[Andreas Schwab]

David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> writes:

> From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:55:46 -0400
>
>> Does anyone feel strongly that detailed change logs are limiting our
>> acceptance of new developers to the community?
>
> Let's take a real simple example.
>
> I figure out that internal function FOO no longer uses argument X,
> so I'm going to remove argument X from the interface.
>
> There are 1000 call sites.
>
> What value does that 1001 line ChangeLog entry provide?

There is just a single line that says "All callers changed".

Andreas.

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