From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12971 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2018 07:34:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 12950 invoked by uid 89); 6 Feb 2018 07:34:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: rock.gnat.com Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 07:34:01 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8D6563DB; Tue, 6 Feb 2018 02:33:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id IL2gkiyr-2ej; Tue, 6 Feb 2018 02:33:59 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56668563D8; Tue, 6 Feb 2018 02:33:59 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A16EC8304F; Tue, 6 Feb 2018 11:33:54 +0400 (+04) Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 07:34:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Joseph Myers Cc: Yao Qi , GDB , GDB Patches Subject: Re: Stop updating ChangeLog? Message-ID: <20180206073354.juuhsw4q7tzi74w2@adacore.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-SW-Source: 2018-02/txt/msg00081.txt.bz2 > > Joseph, > > The format of ChangLog entry is out of the scope of this discussion. > > IMO, each project is free to choose whether to write changelog entry > > or not (either in commit log or ChangeLog file). Some GNU projects > > I don't believe they are so free (yet). The current (and problematic) GCS > requirement, that I've been trying to get changed, is for ChangeLog files > in releases, using a particular format (which I don't think is a good > format since it forces description at the level of changed to individual > files and named entities therein, which closely duplicates the information > in the diffs themselves) - the projects may choose whether that's a > checked-in file or generated automatically. Joseph is absolutely right, in that, as a GNU project, GDB is expected to follow the GNU Coding Standards. So we all need to go and contribute to the dicussion on the bug-standards list. Let's get rid of the ChangeLog format! -- Joel