ChangeLog entry complexity

[David Miller]

From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:55:57 +0000

> I think having such fully-defined conventions that allow automatic 
> ChangeLog generation would be reasonable

Many of us are not advocating for that.

I don't think it's reasonable to ship a ChangeLog, in any form, at
all.

Are people working on the Linux kernel or other GIT projects without
a ChangeLog really working at a disadvantage because the tarballs
lack an automatically generated ChangeLog file?

When you make a tarball for a release, it's made using a signed tag,
so the GIT context in which to do commit data minining is unambiguous.