From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15454 invoked by alias); 3 Dec 2007 14:41:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 15428 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Dec 2007 14:41:18 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from VLSI1.ULTRA.NYU.EDU (HELO vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu) (128.122.140.213) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with SMTP; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:41:10 +0000 Received: by vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (4.1/1.34) id AA22354; Mon, 3 Dec 07 09:41:01 EST From: kenner@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner) Message-Id: <10712031441.AA22354@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:41:00 -0000 To: dberlin@dberlin.org Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages Cc: dewar@adacore.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, hp@bitrange.com, sam@rfc1149.net In-Reply-To: <4aca3dc20712022051u7bafa9bbqba7ef27f13dce46f@mail.gmail.com> References: <2007-12-02-11-05-39+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <2007-12-02-11-52-03+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <20071202065558.S8303@dair.pair.com> <47533F95.5080608@adacore.com> <10712030406.AA12801@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <4aca3dc20712022051u7bafa9bbqba7ef27f13dce46f@mail.gmail.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-12/txt/msg00068.txt.bz2 > There are in fact, already programs that will generate GNU format > changelogs from svn log (see http://ch.tudelft.nl/~arthur/svn2cl/) > It would be very easy to run these as part of the release process. Sure, but I think that's bad for this project since I support the idea that the svn log should contain additional information that's not part of what the GNU project wants in ChangeLog.