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Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages
On 12/2/07, Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> wrote:
> > I'd go even further, and say if the GNU coding standards say we
> > shouldn't be putting descriptions of why we are changing things in the
> > ChangeLog, than they should be changed and should be ignored on this
> > point until they do. Pointing to them as the if they are The One True
> > Way seems very suspect to me. After all, how else would they ever
> > improve if nobody tries anything different?
>
> The people who wrote them presumably thought about these issues, too.
Right, because surely one size fits all projects and possibilities,
and workflow and processes have certainly not changed since then.