[PATCH] So are we using ChangeLog or not?

[Simon McVittie]

There have been an assortment of commits from J5 recently which didn't update
ChangeLog. I personally think this is an argument in favour of
auto-generating ChangeLog from git log --stat at dist time, and
shouting at people who write poor commit messages instead of people who write
poor (or nonexistent) ChangeLog entries; that has the advantage that
when you commit, you can't avoid writing a commit message.

Also, many of the conventions people follow in ChangeLogs seem to be relics of
projects that didn't have modern (> CVS) source code control:

* date and committer: implicitly logged, even if the patch is pulled
  from a non-committer's git tree (distributed source code control for the win)
* filenames affected: implicitly logged (git-log --stat)
* writing ChangeLog incrementally as you work: if you need to do this, your
  commits are probably too big (one user-visible change can be a series
  of patches, see my recent dbus core changes...)
* git log (or svn log, or bzr log, or darcs changes, or...) produces a much
  more sensible changelog than cvs log would, due to knowing about
  multi-file commits

However, since Havoc seems to disagree, I attach a patch for ChangeLog.
Are we enforcing ChangeLog entries or not?

	Simon
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