[RFC] ChangeLog generation script

[Paul Eggert]

Zack Weinberg wrote:
> I find *writing*
> changelog entries by hand to be a valuable discipline.  It forces me
> to read every line of the patch I'm about to submit, and I've caught
> mistakes dozens of times because of it.

That's fine, and you can continue doing that even after we have a script. Other 
"stop and think twice" techniques work better for me, in the sense that they 
find mistakes more efficiently than ChangeLog-writing does. (Reading the diff is 
one of these techniques.) The goal is developing and maintaining the best 
software we can with the limited resources we have.