Re: To ChangeLog or not to ChangeLog, that is the question
Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org> writes:
My feeling is that ChangeLogs are a good thing, for MOST BUT NOT ALL
changes, and that contributions should not be categorically turned
down due to lack of ChangeLogs. I think this is just Common Sense.
I think ChangeLog entries are nice to have, and all changes that are
user-visible should have ChangeLog entries. (That is -- all code
changes should have entries; changes to indentation, comments (etc.)
shouldn't necessarily have.)
What I've started doing lately with Gnus patches that I get is
including a standard response at the end of the aqc of patches that
are ChangeLog-less saying something like "In the future, could you
include ChangeLog entries?", and then I write the ChangeLog entries
myself.
However, XEmacs is a project of several magnitudes larger than Gnus,
so I understand the temptation to reject ChangeLog-less patches.
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