ChangeLog rotated

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> What do people think about switching to a form of the naming scheme
> used by binutils, gdb, etc.: ChangeLog-00, ..., ChangeLog-03,
> ChangeLog-04, etc.?  I think this would often make it slightly easier
> to find the ChangeLog entry for a particular change.

I'd rather use four-digit years (as does GDB).  If this is done, it should 
be done for all currently rotated ChangeLog series (e.g. gcc/cp/ChangeLog 
as well), though historical ones such as ChangeLog.tree-ssa would best be 
left as they are.

One concern would be with the size of the ChangeLog before rotation at the 
end of the year; I don't know if anyone is still trying to commit over 
dialup, but that might be a problem if they are.  This however can be 
addressed by moving the entries for the first half of the year to 
ChangeLog-2005 at the start of July, then adding the remaining entries to 
there at the end of the year, so having at most six months' entries in the 
current ChangeLog at any time.

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