Re: Structured Changelogs for ELPA packages

Jean Louis <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello Philip,
>
> I understand your request was about extracting, yet me I answered to
> Andrew Hyatt, who said:
>
>> " I know this will be controversial, but if we want to maintain that
>> changelogs are for humans and not machines, the solution is to use
>> an LLM to produce a standardized changelog from the freeform
>> changelog. I really don't see a downside to this; this kind of
>> operation is pretty reliable. "
>
> So my message and testing was related to "producing standardized
> changelog using the LLM" and I have demonstrated it is not
> deterministic.

My understanding, and Andrew can correct me here, is that he was
thinking about using an LLM to take an arbitrary changelog/NEWS file and
transform it into some standardized format like "Keep a Changelog".