Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs
Mike Frysinger via Gdb <[email protected]>
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On 13 Mar 2021 18:02, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:12:40 -0500 > > From: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> > > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > > > On 13 Mar 2021 09:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:53:54 -0500 > > > > From: Mike Frysinger via Gdb <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > we're planning on dropping ChangeLog files in sim/ and replacing > > > > them with a pointer to the online vcs log. > > > > > > Will the release tarballs include the generated ChangeLog file? If > > > not, why not? > > > > we can, but we're leaning towards not because they don't seem to be > > providing any actual value for people. > > So people who don't have Git will be left without the logs? I'm not > sure I'm okay with that. what value are people actually pulling from these ? we aren't talking about user-focused NEWS, we're talking about developer-focused ChangeLog. > Producing a ChangeLog from Git log when the release is tarred is not > hard, why skip it? the hard & bikeshed part is what form does the log take. do you just want the default `git log` output ? -mike