From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 61309 invoked by alias); 5 Feb 2018 17:23:29 -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 61289 invoked by uid 89); 5 Feb 2018 17:23:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy= X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: mircat.net Received: from mircat.net (HELO mircat.net) (81.9.105.50) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:23:27 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.77] (port=35138) by mircat.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1.2:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.85) (envelope-from ) id 1eikUF-000FSM-Ss; Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:23:23 +0300 Subject: Re: Stop updating ChangeLog? To: Yao Qi , GDB , GDB Patches References: From: Dmitry Samersoff Message-ID: <3e84739d-9171-e9e7-b830-c4b27975cba8@samersoff.net> Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:23:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ggWq1MkUROvEHMShlI49J872NLEBwhmXm" X-Authenticated-As: dms X-SpamProbe: GOOD 0.0000015 181c90f0b49b176df53365b39fa109b4 X-SW-Source: 2018-02/txt/msg00070.txt.bz2 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --ggWq1MkUROvEHMShlI49J872NLEBwhmXm Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="QEKSenl2bAEJpgT1gtW90uFxTlRTra129"; protected-headers="v1" From: Dmitry Samersoff To: Yao Qi , GDB , GDB Patches Message-ID: <3e84739d-9171-e9e7-b830-c4b27975cba8@samersoff.net> Subject: Re: Stop updating ChangeLog? References: In-Reply-To: --QEKSenl2bAEJpgT1gtW90uFxTlRTra129 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1707 Yao, > c) If answer are Yes/No, developers still have to write changelog > entries in git commit log, and we can generate ChangeLog on > release from git log. My version. I use changelog to check what was changed in gdb. I can live with (c) and get this information directly from git, but it requires some additional efforts on my side. -Dmitry On 02/05/2018 07:00 PM, Yao Qi wrote: > Hi all, > The discussion in this thread > https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-02/msg00012.html > leads to a discussion that whether we still need ChangeLog. I start > a new thread to get more attention on this topic. >=20 > In current development, we need to write one ore more changelog > entries for each commit, put them into both git commit log and > ChangeLog files. How much we can change to existing mode > depends the answers to these following questions, >=20 > #1 Are ChangeLog files useful in GDB releases to various people > who build GDB releases? > #2 Are ChangeLog files useful in GDB repo to various GDB > developers? >=20 > a) If answers are Yes/Yes, we keep unchanged, > b) If answers are No/No, we don't need to write changelog entries in > git commit log, nor updating ChangeLog file, > c) If answer are Yes/No, developers still have to write changelog > entries in git commit log, and we can generate ChangeLog on > release from git log. > d) If answers are No/Yes, get use to git to get the information from > git log instead of ChangeLog, >=20 > My answers are No/No, so I suggest that we do b). I can live up with > c), but that needs change in the release process. What do you think? >=20 --=20 Dmitry Samersoff http://devnull.samersoff.net * There will come soft rains ... --QEKSenl2bAEJpgT1gtW90uFxTlRTra129-- --ggWq1MkUROvEHMShlI49J872NLEBwhmXm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" Content-length: 512 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFGBAEBCAAwFiEE0KXB0pMXaLTcmwj5cTLTxziAgAEFAlp4kyYSHGRtc0BzYW1l cnNvZmYubmV0AAoJEHEy08c4gIABGlgH/1m3Ahpc6Odk/yjFeAFJY9bsy+tDjXIw i0mZkWkVyHRvXrfUAz23I8DpcnGlLP/oqvIdYBNFebX0CA7e+9yIwG5TA0PLrBjt NAuxeLXLJGdcnxRjP0fD81+6a5N8VlTx2gEa3Nh/ioOo+QIhEsGejJhzAHBsz+rt pCXd8ZE7rb1HVg83pBFZyCeeitOWlrHGGndqrm1cmb4/QZc76w5bME9hGnRO0yTr iJOzm3BENBqcI9M+SdIf1M2MGGPFl8x9NTO2xL88laEu8e5O/xjwt6lQnDc/qfF6 4NfBwlBjSieGZ1AC1rV0oDK83pckjfZ4CJGPpdnOhO7SvVzGyHB6xBc= =dRa6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ggWq1MkUROvEHMShlI49J872NLEBwhmXm--