Re: contribution checklist in the wiki

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 05/22/2013 07:29 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Now we just need to convince others.  :-)
> 
> Next thing we know, we will be getting rid of ChangeLog files also :-)
> (which I have done for the AdaCore version, btw)

That I'm not so sure.  I do find them useful for archaeology.  My
current view mirrors Alexandre's here, so I'll just make his words
mine :-) :

 http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-04/msg00100.html

> 
>> As someone that has done _lots_ of archaeology on gdb's code,
>> including going further back beyond the cvs import, I've often
>> had trouble matching ChangeLogs to mailing list discussions, and
>> then often will still not find a clear rationale if I actually
>> find a match.  I can only wish people had been doing it too
>> "back then".
> 
> Same on my end - I constantly go back in history, both with the FSF
> and AdaCore repositories, and found that they help tremendously.
> 


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Pedro Alves