Duncan Findlay writes: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 05:41:50PM -0400, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:54:05PM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: > > > http://use.perl.org/~petdance/journal/30809 > > > > Yeah, I can understand the POV. Our changelog is generally written so that > > we > > know what's changed in a commit, and if we need more info, that's what the > > bug > > ticket reference is for -- and the Changes file lets people see those as > > well > > w/out needing SVN and such. > > I'd argue that "written" is the wrong word here. AFAIK, we use SVN for > this only because it's easier than actually writing a useful change > log. > > Maybe we want to keep a running changelog and every time someone fixes > something worth while they make an entry in it.
I've tried that before on other projects -- it doesn't work. People forget to update it... inside the version-control log is the easiest way to do it (for the developers at least). --j.
