Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

Mike Frysinger via Gdb
2021-03-13T16:26:18Z

On 13 Mar 2021 18:02, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:12:40 -0500
> > From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, andrew.burgess@embecosm.com
> >
> > On 13 Mar 2021 09:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 21:53:54 -0500
> > > > From: Mike Frysinger via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
> > > >
> > > > we're planning on dropping ChangeLog files in sim/ and replacing
> > > > them with a pointer to the online vcs log.
> > >
> > > Will the release tarballs include the generated ChangeLog file? If
> > > not, why not?
> >
> > we can, but we're leaning towards not because they don't seem to be
> > providing any actual value for people.
>
> So people who don't have Git will be left without the logs? I'm not
> sure I'm okay with that.

what value are people actually pulling from these ? we aren't talking
about user-focused NEWS, we're talking about developer-focused ChangeLog.

> Producing a ChangeLog from Git log when the release is tarred is not
> hard, why skip it?

the hard & bikeshed part is what form does the log take. do you just want
the default `git log` output ?
-mike