Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages

[Andi Kleen]

kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) writes:
>
> Yes, but none of those are visible other than to the development community.
> People who obtain the source distributions of projects don't get to see
> those things.  They DO see things like the ChangeLog format and coding
> and documentation conventions and THOSE are the things that need to be
> common among GNU projects.

It would be probably reasonable these days to require of someone who
wants to do serious development to just download a SVN checkout
for that [or they can use svnweb on http://gcc.gnu.org]

-Andi