From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16155 invoked by alias); 2 Dec 2007 20:36:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 16147 invoked by uid 22791); 2 Dec 2007 20:36:39 -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 20:36:30 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.3] (83.156.55.88) by mail.libertysurf.net (7.3.118.8) id 470CEC87008705B4; Sun, 2 Dec 2007 22:37:11 +0100 From: Eric Botcazou To: "Daniel Berlin" Subject: Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:36:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, "Bernd Schmidt" , "Richard Kenner" , schwab@suse.de, sam@rfc1149.net References: <2007-12-02-11-05-39+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net> <4752A817.7000206@t-online.de> <4aca3dc20712021227l666309jf7da5c53e9c68352@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4aca3dc20712021227l666309jf7da5c53e9c68352@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200712022136.57819.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/msg00035.txt.bz2 > I'd go even further, and say if the GNU coding standards say we > shouldn't be putting descriptions of why we are changing things in the > ChangeLog, than they should be changed and should be ignored on this > point until they do. Pointing to them as the if they are The One True > Way seems very suspect to me. After all, how else would they ever > improve if nobody tries anything different? The people who wrote them presumably thought about these issues, too. -- Eric Botcazou