> I'm not sure people will want to drop ChangeLogs anytime soon. I don't > find them all that useful, but I *have* used them extensively when doing > archeology. It gives you the initial thread to pull when finding out > about changes. > > What I *do* miss a lot is a an easier way to link from the ChangeLog > entry into the email message explaining the whys and hows of a change. > In this respect, the comment in the code is not enough. The comment > explains what the code does today, it does not (and should not) explain > the history of that piece of code. Otherwise, comments would soon grow > to useless proportions.
I agree completely with all of that.