Re: Contribution Checklist - ChangeLog

[Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>]

[Moving discussion to libc-alpha since it's the more appropriate forum]

On 20/08/20 13:26, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> Sorry I think I missed updating the contribution checklist.  I am
>> inclined towards removing all mention of the ChangeLog in the
>> checklist and add a last point about needing ChangeLog entries for
>> patches to stable branches older than 2.31.  Does that sound
>> reasonable?
> 
> I don't think it makes sense to treat older stable branches
> differently.  Either all of them need ChangeLogs, or none of them do.

My personal bias is towards not having to write ChangeLog entries at
all.  We could make it happen by backporting the ChangeLog script to
older stable branches and then drop the ChangeLog requirement altogether.

As an aside, I'm thinking of separating out the stable branch (and all
of the old addons, ports, etc.) related stuff out into a separate page
so that this checklist remains short and simple.  Stable branches have
historically only been touched by distribution maintainers and I doubt
if that will change in the near future given that we don't cut releases
off stable branches.  I'll do this too tonight if nobody objects.

Siddhesh