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Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?
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Óscar Fuentes |
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Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs? |
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Fri, 08 Jul 2016 16:15:10 +0200 |
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Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden> writes:
Sorry, sent too early.
> But the real damage ChangeLogs cause is their formulaic, almost mechanic
> aspect: people write a lot of minutiae instead of writing a commit
> message intended to help the reader, the same way good code comments are
> written. It is true that some hackers write good commit messages *and*
> ChangeLogs, but I'm under the impression that most people just write the
> changelog and consider that their job is done (after all, current policy
> for commit messages is to write a summary line and the
... Changelog just below.)
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, (continued)
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, John Wiegley, 2016/07/06
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/06
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, John Wiegley, 2016/07/06
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Paul Eggert, 2016/07/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Paul Eggert, 2016/07/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Ted Zlatanov, 2016/07/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/07/07
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Richard Stallman, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?,
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- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Óscar Fuentes, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/07/08
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, John Wiegley, 2016/07/08
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- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/07/09
- Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?, Dmitry Gutov, 2016/07/09