From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16830 invoked by alias); 2 Dec 2007 13:05:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 16762 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Dec 2007 13:05:00 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx-out.libertysurf.net (HELO mail.libertysurf.net) (213.36.80.91) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:04:50 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (83.156.55.88) by mail.libertysurf.net (7.3.118.8) id 470CEC870085DCB9; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:05:34 +0100 From: Eric Botcazou To: Bernd Schmidt Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:05:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, Richard Kenner , schwab@suse.de, sam@rfc1149.net References: <2007-12-02-11-05-39+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <10712021228.AA23790@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> <4752A817.7000206@t-online.de> In-Reply-To: <4752A817.7000206@t-online.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712021405.16103.ebotcazou@libertysurf.fr> 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/msg00030.txt.bz2 > FWIW, I agree completely - I've never found ChangeLogs useful, I hate > writing them, and I think the linux-kernel guys these days generally have > much better checkin messages than we do. I guess nobody really loves writing ChangeLog entries, but in my opinion there are quite effective "executive summaries" for the patches and helpful to the reader/reviewer. Please let's not throw the baby with the bath's water. -- Eric Botcazou