Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

Andrew Burgess
2021-03-23T11:06:45Z

* Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [2021-03-23 01:05:52 -0400]:

> On 17 Mar 2021 15:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > > > 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?
>
> Andrew: you OK with me merging my patches ?
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-January/174894.html
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-January/174895.html
>
> i feel like we can & should make progress here: generating the files
> for release allows us to stop hand writing these entirely. we can
> then spend time debating the format (or whether to generate them) and
> not spend any time on hand writing.

Sure, if that's what you want, go for it. I still don't
see/understand the value of the auto-generated files, but I'm coming
to the conclusion that I might never understand.

Thanks,
Andrew