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From: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org>
To: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
Cc: cgen@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: updating ChangeLog policy to match binutils/gdb?
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 23:10:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o88uvp6c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YUD502UbhsGOnGDu@vapier> (Mike Frysinger via Cgen's message of "Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:36:51 -0400")


> On 29 Jun 2021 18:17, Jose E. Marchesi via Cgen wrote:
>> > the binutils & gdb projects are changing their ChangeLog policy: they won't
>> > be required anywhere, but people need to write detailed commit messages.
>> > can we update cgen to follow suit ?
>> >
>> > gdb: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-June/179872.html
>> > binutils: https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2021-June/117016.html
>> 
>> I wouldn't object to such a change.
>> 
>> (I will continue including ChangeLog entries in commit messages
>>  anyway... after so many years I would feel "naked" without them ;))
>
> just want to double check before i start doing this ... it's OK if i omit
> ChangeLog entries now ?

If Frank doesn't object, I think it makes sense to follow what binutils
and GDB do, i.e. no ChangeLog entries required.

      reply	other threads:[~2021-09-14 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-29  1:39 Mike Frysinger
2021-06-29 16:17 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2021-09-14 19:36   ` Mike Frysinger
2021-09-14 21:10     ` Jose E. Marchesi [this message]

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