On Fri, 4 Aug 2017, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > ChangeLog entries are trivial and quick to write, and save so much
This whole proposal is because they are not at all trivial or quick to write for the sorts of changes that are common in projects such as glibc or GCC, which are very different from the small local changes illustrated in the example ChangeLog entries in the GNU Coding Standards. They also serve unnecessarily to isolate GNU from the broader free software community and discourage people working on a wide range of free software from contributing to GNU, by adding an additional GNU-specific format people need to learn that isn't useful elsewhere, when many extremely active free software projects such as the Linux kernel have evidently found fully functional ways of understanding code history and achieving the purposes of ChangeLogs without the ChangeLog format - ways which are useful extremely broadly across free software rather than being GNU-specific as ChangeLogs are. -- Joseph S. Myers [email protected]
