Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

Luis Machado via Gdb
2021-03-17T14:31:34Z

On 3/17/21 10:14 AM, Eli Zaretskii via Gdb wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 02:07:46 -0400
>> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
>> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, andrew.burgess@embecosm.com
>>
>>> That's a different conclusions. You asked what people are doing with
>>> the ChangeLogs, not whether it was mandatory to keep them.
>>
>> that's fair. my point/goal was that if there aren't requirements for it,
>> and there isn't a compelling use case for keeping them, then the easiest
>> thing is to do nothing and delete them.
>>
>> it seems that there isn't a requirement ->
>
> Indeed, there's no mandatory requirement to keep the files, not
> anymore.
>
>> i'm skeptical that the logs add value as anyone who is going to contribute
>> by diving into the source history would be online w/git access ->
>> we punt the logs and stop wasting lots of developer time.
>
> I'm not sure I agree with your skepticism. And OTOH, producing the
> ChangeLog from Git logs takes mere seconds and wastes no development
> time. So I think on balance there's very little price to pay for
> something that some people may value. Why refuse to pay that small
> price and humor those few people?
>

Are you proposing simply feeding the git log through the script and
saving that to a file? Even if the output is less detailed than the
ChangeLog entries we have now?