Re: [PATCH 1/2] GDB: S12Z: Add assertion

Joel Brobecker
2018-11-19T16:09:46Z

Hey John,

To add to what Kevin said, we've been discussing this topic many times.
I am pretty sure most people would be very happy to be getting rid of
ChangeLog entries. I think the main issue, now, is to automate their
generation when producing the source packages and releases; this is
because we are a GNU project, and we are expected to allow people
without the git repository to have a sense of the changes that were
made. I think that if we have a process in place that automates this,
we should be OK to replace the ChangeLog files by data extracted from
the revision logs.

What we need, at this point, is someone sufficiently motivated to
put in place this automatic generation. We might also need a bit of
development work on the hooks to validate the revision log's format
and confirm that it always contains a ChangeLog entry in a format
we can understand so we can always extract it (I can take care of
that part once we have an agreement on the process).

--
Joel