From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from us-smtp-delivery-1.mimecast.com (us-smtp-1.mimecast.com [205.139.110.61]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDF943857C7E for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 18:03:28 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org BDF943857C7E Received: from mail-qt1-f200.google.com (mail-qt1-f200.google.com [209.85.160.200]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-482-VD_epTU3PgObDn10utqf6A-1; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:03:24 -0400 X-MC-Unique: VD_epTU3PgObDn10utqf6A-1 Received: by mail-qt1-f200.google.com with SMTP id w30so2088539qte.14 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:03:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:organization :message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to :content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KPSUiJiDTfsI92zjzokl1IZ7eu+9EUWjTs3/ZHutuXM=; b=f2YeZswRUQDLKXvyRg5xPZ4EXFnAUzMGCwjvGZA7P12g3J5o4zailG545D2pI+umYS IwvdEqM5Ij9WbepmgoP8Dxv4yw+rDmOjwvt3ok53Wc9DXhMIcBtezcK86QZNpPJ0t65C auWLDGgk3aIoew8vt5r2yZ9311jpmqLQc/umX1+40Y2yVRVZ69sXXkPCKy+1EuUBLtQu XnhWFgHiCS8d7YkqyVd7vwSV8bCDJK12daeOfdTdWZzsJJgsKqIcaxfvU3PByhybkdxy Sp6iSIxTrBeOiLhn4EnWakR8ejjHQ+D6Av8wMsPf2HVzrhEHUBnnD06xAhKqTbywWU8e Q8vA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533DMHjcs4rp7CyFmsotdJwDVveJOSIeUNmNJSlAa1/m3oUgvgZG vLraBaQetob5Eg9LM3LLeplJrEddqeZuKh7zORchoC/h8Oskrm7hUmT6Of4kiyeNbU3VaE4a1os O860uhCBRXDN7Lk9WgNaq X-Received: by 2002:ad4:5425:: with SMTP id g5mr31394qvt.198.1597946602431; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:03:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJxxYShtTQ2ubOrfU2MEqPFUysGwyqXYAOoYMl/gwexnZgFL4KsR9cxlzKR0mnu+yrjziF3b8A== X-Received: by 2002:ad4:5425:: with SMTP id g5mr31377qvt.198.1597946602188; Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:03:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.16] (198-84-214-74.cpe.teksavvy.com. [198.84.214.74]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 205sm2887074qkj.19.2020.08.20.11.03.21 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:03:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Contribution Checklist - ChangeLog To: Siddhesh Poyarekar , Florian Weimer Cc: Max Gautier , GLIBC Devel References: <20200819154837.GA182209@ol-mgautier.localdomain> <87k0xud3y7.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <20200819162227.GA183107@ol-mgautier.localdomain> <877dttbvim.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <1138b3e2-51a7-440a-6c2c-55e817de4f44@gotplt.org> <79ea0c20-0cf3-5c25-579d-67b0200959c0@gotplt.org> From: Carlos O'Donell Organization: Red Hat Message-ID: <270e209a-a0b9-1ca2-55c5-3eac44090d5d@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 14:03:20 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <79ea0c20-0cf3-5c25-579d-67b0200959c0@gotplt.org> Content-Language: en-US X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0.001 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: libc-alpha@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Libc-alpha mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2020 18:03:30 -0000 On 8/20/20 1:58 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > On 20/08/20 14:12, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: >> 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. > > Aha, so this is where I updated the Checklist and then forgot to merge > the changes in: > > https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Contribution%20checklist%20v2 > > I'll hack on this to get y'all to review and this time around, remember > to merge the changes back :) I would *love* v2 of the checklist to become *live* ... are you going to: (a) Edit v1 with the ChangeLog changes. or (b) Edit v2 and propose we use that. My opinion is that backports to stable branches should *not* update the ChangeLog. The ChangeLog is only valid at the time a tarball is created. If a stable branch has a release then the VCS update scripts will be used to update the ChangeLog. -- Cheers, Carlos.