ChangeLog's: do we have to?

[Richard Biener]

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 9:47 AM Aldy Hernandez <aldyh@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

They are definitely useful in my day-to-day work when tracking down changes
given I can easily grep them.

I think that any change here should be _after_ we've switched to git (finally).

Richard.

>
> Aldy