Mauro Tortonesi wrote: > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > >> Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Jeremy Reeve wrote: >>> >>>> I've written a trivial patch to implement the --disable-dns-cache feature >>>> as described in the TODO contained in the CVS tree. I need to write the >>>> Changelog entry which I'll do and post to the patches list ASAP. >>> >>> you should probably not bother writing it. >> >> That's not quite true. >> >>> from the PATCHES file included in the wget distribution: >>> >>> ** ChangeLog policy. >>> -------------------- >>> >>> Each patch should be accompanied by an update to the appropriate >>> ChangeLog file. *** Please don't mail patches to ChangeLog because they >>> have an extremely high rate of failure; just mail us the new part of >>> the ChangeLog you added. *** [I added the highlight] >> >> Perhaps the wording should have been more clear, but this means: >> please do write the ChangeLog entry and send it, but don't send an >> actual DIFF of the old and new ChangeLog, because such diffs don't >> apply cleanly more often than not. >> >> That is reiterated here: >> >>> Patches without a ChangeLog entry will be accepted, but this creates >>> additional work for the maintainers, so *** please do write the >>> ChangeLog entries. *** > > you're right, hrvoje. when i answered jeremy's mail i was in a hurry. what > i wanted to say is: > > you should probably not bother writing a correctly formatted ChangeLog, > but just send a simple report of the changes you've made.
That contradicts Hrvoje, and really doesn't make sense. Jeremy *should* write a properly formatted ChangeLog. As author of his changes, he is the best person to summarize exactly what they do. Why not do so in the standard form of a ChangeLog entry? To do otherwise is to push more work onto Hrvoje. Max.
