ChangeLog entry complexity

[David Miller]

From: chrubis@suse.cz
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:52:48 +0100

> Hi!
>> > ChangeLog entries provide a useful level of description of changes
>> 
>> Which can be more effectively reproduced, with the searcher's desired
>> level of detail, using the source code control system we use.
> 
> With all the respect I think that ChangeLogs files are relict from times
> where software was distributed as tarballs on tapes and floppy discs.
> 
> Today everybody can checkout the git repository and get the information
> firsthand.

This is what most of us are trying to say.

Some people are simply afraid of change for whatever reason, that's
all.  We have to figure out how to allay their fears.