From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ulrich Drepper To: Jim Wilson Cc: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Changelog time format Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 02:27:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <199805200340.UAA12634@rtl.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1998-05/msg00732.html Jim Wilson 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. -- Uli ---------------. drepper at gnu.org ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Cygnus Solutions `--' drepper at cygnus.com `------------------------