2.26 hard freeze status

[Joseph Myers]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2017, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:

> On Friday 28 July 2017 07:20 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > I'd like to ask for the ChangeLog to be rotated immediately after the
> > release.  We've made no progress on automatic generation of the darn
> > thing, and the current file is 10x larger than any of the previous
> > ones.
> 
> Done.  I wonder if we should go all the way and tar up everything other
> than ChangeLog and ChangeLog.1 into a ChangeLog.old.tar.gz.

When referring to the old history for which the ChangeLogs are useful, I 
think it's definitely best to have them as plain text files for immediate 
reference (meaning ChangeLog-1991, ChangeLog-1992 etc., split by year as 
GCC does, as my preferred arrangement).

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com