From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 56056 invoked by alias); 2 Feb 2018 17:42:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 56047 invoked by uid 89); 2 Feb 2018 17:42:05 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_RED autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: relay1.mentorg.com Received: from relay1.mentorg.com (HELO relay1.mentorg.com) (192.94.38.131) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:42:04 +0000 Received: from nat-ies.mentorg.com ([192.94.31.2] helo=svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com) by relay1.mentorg.com with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:256) id 1ehfLe-0002UG-D8 from joseph_myers@mentor.com ; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:42:02 -0800 Received: from digraph.polyomino.org.uk (137.202.0.87) by svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 15.0.1320.4; Fri, 2 Feb 2018 17:41:58 +0000 Received: from jsm28 (helo=localhost) by digraph.polyomino.org.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ehfLa-0002ta-G3; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:41:58 +0000 Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:42:00 -0000 From: Joseph Myers To: Joel Brobecker CC: Eli Zaretskii , Yao Qi , , Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] GDB 8.1 release branch created! In-Reply-To: <20180202155308.vx7hkemrjfmb27mn@adacore.com> Message-ID: References: <83fu6sln4o.fsf@gnu.org> <3d75778f-5c91-5680-b9fa-c2f2c902ff67@ericsson.com> <838tcklaev.fsf@gnu.org> <83607njlsh.fsf@gnu.org> <86wozwbv68.fsf@gmail.com> <83shakeku7.fsf@gnu.org> <83mv0sehrq.fsf@gnu.org> <837erveqnz.fsf@gnu.org> <20180202155308.vx7hkemrjfmb27mn@adacore.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-ClientProxiedBy: svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) To svr-ies-mbx-01.mgc.mentorg.com (139.181.222.1) X-SW-Source: 2018-02/txt/msg00037.txt.bz2 On Fri, 2 Feb 2018, Joel Brobecker wrote: > > > We need a clear rule on writing changelog, otherwise how do we > > > write changelog or review patches? > > > > I agree. I hope Someone(TM) will answer these questions. > > Well, if it were me, I would stop using ChangeLog files with > immediate effect. Feel free to join the discussion on bug-standards (which has been going for several months) of eliminating the GNU Coding Standards requirement for the ChangeLog *format*. (It's already been allowed by the GCS for over 20 years to generate the ChangeLog *file* at release time for the release tarball from version control history rather than having it checked in, but then of course you need to make sure that commit messages are appropriately formatted to derive ChangeLog entries - so I consider that the format, not the file, is the main issue.) -- Joseph S. Myers joseph@codesourcery.com