Re: ChangeLog and commit messages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2023 14:57:23 +0300
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dmitry@gutov.dev>
> 
> On 19/06/2023 13:10, Po Lu wrote:
> > At my organization, which uses SVN, each new revision
> > is required to change only one file, and updates to ChangeLog are
> > performed separately after all edits are checked in and the
> > corresponding files are unlocked.  This is also the same policy that was
> > used by Emacs development in the CVS days, I think.
> 
> Sounds like your organization uses a fairly antiquated workflow.
> 
> Luckily, we're a few steps ahead now in Emacs development.

Was this really an opinion worthy of making public?  How is it
supposed to be helpful for a serious discussion to derogate the
participants?  The man was asked to describe his use case, so he did
it.  It makes no sense to reprimand him for telling us what we asked
to hear.