Re: Changelog time format

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>]

Jim Wilson <wilson@cygnus.com> writes:

> It only took one person to decide that glibc should switch to the
> new format.  It will take 10 or so for egcs to decide to switch to
> the new format.  That is why egcs is inevitably lagging behind.

It took only one person to decide, right, but they are fortunately
several contributors who send patches with ChangeLog entries which
should be written in the right form (and some of the contributors have
write access).  It's not so much different, it's just that nobody
wants to stand up and decide.

> It would actually help egcs if the ChangeLog format was explicitly written
> into the FSF style guides.  Then at least my arguments in favor of the
> new format would be more convincing.

If you want to discuss this with Richard, go on.  I've given up doing
things like this and we (some other GNU maintainers) have written our
own extensions to the existing GNU coding standard which are more
detailed and more strict.

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