[devel] Big ChangeLog policy

Alexey Tourbin at at altlinux.ru
Sat Nov 14 05:35:30 UTC 2009


On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:27:23PM +0200, Led wrote:
> On Friday, 13 November 2009 22:19:00 Igor Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:39:54PM +0300, Alexey Tourbin wrote:
> > > Along with traditional ChangeLog file, which is of little use to the end
> > > user, many projects maintain a user-friendly (and developer-friendly)
> > > file called NEWS.  The rule is (I hereby propose) that NEWS be packaged.
> > > And changelogs usually should not be packaged.
> >
> > In case of the robot, it can kill ChangeLog if NEWS file also exists.
> >
> > Who will support this proposal?
> Not I, because it is silly.

How do you argue it's silly?
I see it's rather smart.

> -- 
> Led
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