Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

Mike Frysinger via Gdb
2021-03-17T06:07:52Z

On 13 Mar 2021 20:32, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > On 13 Mar 2021 18:38, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > > > > 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.
> > >
> > > This has been beaten to death in various forums, including GNU
> > > internal ones. the conclusion was that some people want that, and
> > > some developers are not always on-line and with Git repo handy.
> >
> > the conclusion is that GNU standards made recommendations, but individual
> > projects can pick between them.
>
> 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 ->
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.
-mike