>> So, what can we do to make this disruptive behaviour stop ? It's >> exasperating. > > Two options > > 1) Someone who cares about ChangeLogs can ... > > 2) Someone who cares about ChangeLogs can ... >
It's not about "caring about ChangeLogs" - it's about "coding standards". If every contributor who doesn't like a specific part of the GNUstep coding standards was to just ignore them and do whatever they like (in the way that you are behaving), the project would be a huge, unmaintainable mess. If you want to take part in a larger project with many other different developers, you have to accept that such large projects have well-defined and well-documented standards that your submissions have to comply with. In your own personal pet project you can do anything you want; but when you take part in a project that is shared with hundreds of other developers and an unspecified (not small) number of users, you have to realize that there are other people - other than you - who are working on the project or using it, have different opinions on just about anything, and that the only way to get some consistency and quality in the code base is that everyone follows an agreed set of standards. That may mean doing things you wouldn't normally do, such as using a different coding style or writing ChangeLog entries or other things that are required as standard for contributions to the project. We can still have discussions and flamewars about whether ChangeLog entries are good or bad; but the fact is that all contributions to GNUstep, at this point in time, are required to include GNU-style ChangeLog entries. If you need clarification on what that means, you can refer to the GNUstep coding standards: http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/Developer/CodingStandards/coding-standards.html As an experienced developer, I would expect that you would have no troubles doing the small adapations required to comply with the coding standards of each project that you contribute to - and that includes GNUstep. Thanks _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
