From: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: sim: replacing ChangeLog files with online git logs
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:06:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210323110638.GA6592@embecosm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YFl3MAUkQBtaW0/g@vapier>
* Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> [2021-03-23 01:05:52 -0400]:
> On 17 Mar 2021 15:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > > > That's a different conclusions. You asked what people are doing with
> > > > the ChangeLogs, not whether it was mandatory to keep them.
> > >
> > > that's fair. my point/goal was that if there aren't requirements for it,
> > > and there isn't a compelling use case for keeping them, then the easiest
> > > thing is to do nothing and delete them.
> > >
> > > it seems that there isn't a requirement ->
> >
> > Indeed, there's no mandatory requirement to keep the files, not
> > anymore.
> >
> > > i'm skeptical that the logs add value as anyone who is going to contribute
> > > by diving into the source history would be online w/git access ->
> > > we punt the logs and stop wasting lots of developer time.
> >
> > I'm not sure I agree with your skepticism. And OTOH, producing the
> > ChangeLog from Git logs takes mere seconds and wastes no development
> > time. So I think on balance there's very little price to pay for
> > something that some people may value. Why refuse to pay that small
> > price and humor those few people?
>
> Andrew: you OK with me merging my patches ?
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-January/174894.html
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/gdb-patches/2021-January/174895.html
>
> i feel like we can & should make progress here: generating the files
> for release allows us to stop hand writing these entirely. we can
> then spend time debating the format (or whether to generate them) and
> not spend any time on hand writing.
Sure, if that's what you want, go for it. I still don't
see/understand the value of the auto-generated files, but I'm coming
to the conclusion that I might never understand.
Thanks,
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-23 11:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-13 2:53 Mike Frysinger
2021-03-13 7:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-13 15:12 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-03-13 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-13 16:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-03-13 16:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-13 18:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-03-13 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-17 6:07 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-03-17 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-17 14:31 ` Luis Machado
2021-03-17 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-17 14:52 ` Luis Machado
2021-03-17 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-17 15:22 ` Luis Machado
2021-03-17 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-17 15:52 ` Simon Marchi
2021-03-17 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-17 17:24 ` Luis Machado
2021-03-17 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-17 20:53 ` Luis Machado
2021-03-18 9:31 ` Andrew Burgess
2021-03-18 9:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-22 2:19 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-03-22 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-23 4:57 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-03-23 5:05 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-03-23 11:06 ` Andrew Burgess [this message]
2021-03-24 3:45 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-03-24 16:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-24 16:59 ` Andrew Burgess
2021-03-24 17:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-24 18:44 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-03-31 2:27 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-03-31 3:27 ` Joel Brobecker
2021-03-31 11:35 ` Luis Machado
2021-03-31 15:29 ` Joel Brobecker
2021-04-01 3:41 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-04-19 0:52 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-04-19 2:32 ` Joel Brobecker
2021-04-19 4:31 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-04-19 5:00 ` Joel Brobecker
2021-05-23 3:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2021-06-10 12:11 ` Luis Machado
2021-03-13 18:34 ` Paul Smith
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