Re: FYI: changelog formatting notes [libtool--devo--1.0--patch-1]

[Alexandre Duret-Lutz]

>>> "Gary" == Gary V Vaughan <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
 Gary> As an incentive for occasional contributers to write their
 Gary> own ChangeLog entry, I have long used the From Patch Author
 Gary> <address@hidden>, if I've had to write the ChangeLog entry myself.  
[...]

Reading my ChangeLog it appears that I'm still doing this
occasionally (for no real reason; I got that habit from other
people).  I need to stop.  It bloats the ChangeLog, it hinders
accounting, and I can't see how that would be any incentive for
contributers to send ChangeLog entries (on the contrary, if you
keep writing entries in your name, they'll think this is
something *you* have to do as the pumpking).

Speaking of accounting, GCS also require the "(tiny change)"
flag in case of small changes without copyright assignment, as in

2004-07-21  Andreas Schwab  <address@hidden>  (tiny change)

        * automake.in (check_directory): Quote $dir in regexp.

which is another reason we must credit the author on the first line.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz