Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

Mike Frysinger via Gdb
2021-04-01T03:42:01Z

On 31 Mar 2021 07:27, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > > > > No the second proposes to replace the current ChangeLog with one
> > > > > auto-generated upon release.
> > > > >
> > > > > This ChangeLog would in effect be a reformatted `git log` output.
> > > >
> > > > I don't object to that, either. The question is: what we will require
> > > > the Git log messages to contain then? Currently, the entire ChangeLog
> > > > entry goes there, but once the manually written ChangeLog files are
> > > > retired, what will remain? That was the crux of the recent
> > > > discussion.
> > >
> > > we won't require the ChangeLog-like entries in the commit message for sim/.
> > > the generated ChangeLog will have name+date+git log.
> >
> > i wanted to give time for people to respond & post any thoughts that they
> > might have lingering before i moved forward. since things have gone quiet
> > now, i guess we've reached the end? so i'll give another few days before
> > i land the change for sim/.
>
> Can you hold off on this for now? We're discussing it within the group
> of GDB Global Maintainers, and we need more time to converge.

certainly. i just didn't want this to go dead for another 2 years before
restarting the whole thing from scratch. manually writing ChangeLog entries
anywhere is an incredible waste of my time.
-mike