Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03/08/2016 12:24 AM, Karl Fogel wrote:

> I looked again -- who are these "many"?

ESR, Óscar, Andy. Maybe others.

> (Andy Moreton suggested something about how we could have improved standards 
> about what we put in a change description in general, but that's different and 
> orthogonal to this discussion.)

Not necessarily improved, but different standards (see "actively 
harmful" in his message).

> Well, one can just include that in the commit message.  My point is just that 
> if it's appropriate for a ChangeLog entry, then it's appropriate for a commit 
> message, and vice versa.  I mean, at least for my commits, the former have 
> always just been a literal copy of the latter, even when doing it manually :-).

How is this relevant? I was describing how the Change Log entries 
submitted together with a patch help reviewing it now. So of course I'm 
referring to the current practice, where the commit message includes the 
Change Log entry.