ChangeLog's: do we have to?

[Aldy Hernandez]

After 20 years of hacking on GCC I feel like I have literally wasted 
days of my life typing out ChangeLog entries that could have easily been 
generated programmatically.

Can someone refresh my memory here, what are the remaining arguments for 
requiring ChangeLog entries?

I vaguely recall Jakub (or Alex Oliva??) mentioning that they were 
desired for releases.  If this is the case, may I volunteer to write the 
necessary scripts to generate these automatically?

It would be nice if we could have meaningful commit messages explaining 
why we are doing things, and any list of changed files be generated on 
the fly.

Sorry, I'm getting old, and would hate to spend any meaningful remaining 
time typing things that a computer can do for me.

Aldy