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Re: Stop updating ChangeLog?
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Yao Qi <qiyaoltc at gmail dot com>, GDB <gdb at sourceware dot org>, GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 11:33:54 +0400
- Subject: Re: Stop updating ChangeLog?
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> > Joseph,
> > The format of ChangLog entry is out of the scope of this discussion.
> > IMO, each project is free to choose whether to write changelog entry
> > or not (either in commit log or ChangeLog file). Some GNU projects
>
> I don't believe they are so free (yet). The current (and problematic) GCS
> requirement, that I've been trying to get changed, is for ChangeLog files
> in releases, using a particular format (which I don't think is a good
> format since it forces description at the level of changed to individual
> files and named entities therein, which closely duplicates the information
> in the diffs themselves) - the projects may choose whether that's a
> checked-in file or generated automatically.
Joseph is absolutely right, in that, as a GNU project, GDB is
expected to follow the GNU Coding Standards. So we all need to go
and contribute to the dicussion on the bug-standards list.
Let's get rid of the ChangeLog format!
--
Joel