GNU bug report logs - #21998
Run 'make change-history' on release branch

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 19:09:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr <at> thyrsus.com>
To: Emacs developers <emacs-devel <at> gnu.org>, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 21998 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21998: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? (Was: bug#21998: Run 'make change-history' on release branch)
Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 17:05:02 -0500

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John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>:
>  On Sun, Mar 06 2016 13:07 (-0800), John Wiegley wrote:
> > 
> > I have always wanted to drop the ChangeLogs, so if the other developers agree,
> > I'm all for it. Keeping ChangeLog style in the commit entry is not terribly
> > useful either, since the diff output of log -p lets you know which function or
> > variable is being modified. I've never missed not having that ChangeLog data
> > in other projects, of any size. But that's up to the other developers and what
> > makes their lives easier.
> 
> I'd like to open this up to discussion on emacs-devel, so that we hear from
> our other developers. What do you all think about ChangeLogs, and their value
> to you in your work on Emacs?

I advocated dropping ChangeLogs at the time I did the repository conversion.
That is still my position.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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