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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 8.1 release branch created!
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>, Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>, <simon dot marchi at ericsson dot com>, <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 17:41:58 +0000
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 8.1 release branch created!
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On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > > We need a clear rule on writing changelog, otherwise how do we
> > > write changelog or review patches?
> >
> > I agree. I hope Someone(TM) will answer these questions.
>
> Well, if it were me, I would stop using ChangeLog files with
> immediate effect.
Feel free to join the discussion on bug-standards (which has been going
for several months) of eliminating the GNU Coding Standards requirement
for the ChangeLog *format*. (It's already been allowed by the GCS for
over 20 years to generate the ChangeLog *file* at release time for the
release tarball from version control history rather than having it checked
in, but then of course you need to make sure that commit messages are
appropriately formatted to derive ChangeLog entries - so I consider that
the format, not the file, is the main issue.)
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com