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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@orcam.me.uk>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, Eli Zaretskii via Gdb wrote:

> > I'd love to hear more about these many important use cases as this
> > might help me improve my workflow.  I can't recall ever referring to
> > the ChangeLogs to help track down a bug, so I'm worried I might be
> > missing out on some excellent techniques here.
> > 
> > I'm always keen to learn!
> 
> I'm okay with discussing this, but the comment up-thread to the effect
> that I'd better let the sleeping dogs lie turned me off to some
> extent.  I don't want to appear as someone who forces an unwanted
> discussion on the community.
> 
> But if this is a welcome subject, I'd be happy to share my experience,
> FWIW.

 For the record the glibc project has a way to automatically produce 
ChangeLog from commits at release time.  This may be something to look 
into if useful.

  Maciej