Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs

[Paul Eggert]

On 03/09/2016 10:01 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Who needs a history record one cannot trust?  It's worse than having
> no record at all.

Any historian will tell you that you cannot trust historical records. 
Caesar's commentaries, Churchill's speeches, the Open Group Rationale, 
Emacs ChangeLog entries -- they're all riddled with errors, and 
sometimes have outright fabrications, and anybody studying them must 
take this into account. That's just life.

(Though I do hope our ChangeLogs are more trustworthy than Caesar was....)

There is a reasonable question about how much of our development effort 
should be devoted to sprucing up ChangeLogs after they're committed. I 
think this should be low priority, whereas as I understand it you would 
prefer that we boost its priority. Neither side is advocating 
untrustworthy ChangeLogs, or perfect ChangeLogs for that matter; it's 
mainly a question of where to allocate our scarce development resources.