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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
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On 24 Mar 2021 14:44, Mike Frysinger via Gdb wrote:
> On 24 Mar 2021 19:39, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
> > > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2021-03-24 18:46:38 +0200]:
> > > > From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
> > > > > Eli: those patches look OK to you too ?
> > > > 
> > > > They just add the script to our repository, AFAICT, so I of course
> > > > have no objections.
> > > 
> > > No the second proposes to replace the current ChangeLog with one
> > > auto-generated upon release.
> > > 
> > > This ChangeLog would in effect be a reformatted `git log` output.
> > 
> > I don't object to that, either.  The question is: what we will require
> > the Git log messages to contain then?  Currently, the entire ChangeLog
> > entry goes there, but once the manually written ChangeLog files are
> > retired, what will remain?  That was the crux of the recent
> > discussion.
> 
> we won't require the ChangeLog-like entries in the commit message for sim/.
> the generated ChangeLog will have name+date+git log.

i wanted to give time for people to respond & post any thoughts that they
might have lingering before i moved forward.  since things have gone quiet
now, i guess we've reached the end?  so i'll give another few days before
i land the change for sim/.
-mike