On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:58 -0400, Dan Winship wrote: > So, actually, what exactly IS the use case of ChangeLog if there is git > history on one end and NEWS on the other? Who are the people who need > more information than NEWS gives, but who would not want to actually > check out the source tree, and what information, exactly, do they need?
Very good question! I used to think that a ChangLog was very nice for "casual bug-fixers", who may want to fix a quickie bug without having a full clone, but maintaining those one-off patches is so cumbersome in the long run that you are much better off getting a full clone anyway. Federico _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
