Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs

Eli Zaretskii via Gdb
2021-03-13T18:32:09Z

> Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 13:21:29 -0500
> From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, andrew.burgess@embecosm.com
>
> On 13 Mar 2021 18:38, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2021 11:26:11 -0500
> > > From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > > Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, andrew.burgess@embecosm.com
> > >
> > > > 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.

> > There's a Gnulib script which will produce the form that matches the
> > ChangeLog format.
>
> there's actually multiple gnulib scripts. which one are you referring to ?
> gitlog-to-changelog ?

Yes, that one.