Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs
Eli Zaretskii via Gdb <[email protected]>
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> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 02:07:46 -0400 > From: Mike Frysinger <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > > That's a different conclusions. You asked what people are doing with > > the ChangeLogs, not whether it was mandatory to keep them. > > that's fair. my point/goal was that if there aren't requirements for it, > and there isn't a compelling use case for keeping them, then the easiest > thing is to do nothing and delete them. > > it seems that there isn't a requirement -> Indeed, there's no mandatory requirement to keep the files, not anymore. > i'm skeptical that the logs add value as anyone who is going to contribute > by diving into the source history would be online w/git access -> > we punt the logs and stop wasting lots of developer time. I'm not sure I agree with your skepticism. And OTOH, producing the ChangeLog from Git logs takes mere seconds and wastes no development time. So I think on balance there's very little price to pay for something that some people may value. Why refuse to pay that small price and humor those few people?