[Pm-utils] Fwd: [PATCH 1/1] Generate ChangeLog on demand.

[Michael Biebl]

2008/3/9, Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at luon.net>:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:14:40PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>  > Forgot to CC the mailing list.
>  >
>  > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  > From: Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com>
>  > Date: 09.03.2008 15:14
>  > Subject: Re: [Pm-utils] [PATCH 1/1] Generate ChangeLog on demand.
>  > To: Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com>
>  >
>  >
>  > 2008/3/6, Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com>:
>  >
>  > > Since git has very fast log creation aand we imported the entire revision
>  >  >  history from CVS, we can generate ChangeLog on demand instead of having to
>  >  >  track it.
>  >
>  >
>  > Problem is, a generated Changelog will never be as clean as a hand written
>  > one.  It will contain a lot of noise and be less well formatted.
>
>
> Otoh changelogs are redundant in the presence of decent commit logs and a
>  source of merge conflicts. As long as everyone realises the commit messages
>  are important a generated ChangeLog is just as good or even better then a
>  hand-crafted one.
>

Agreed, the merge conflicts are definitely a problem.

About the increased "noise" of a generated changelog: Maybe it would
make sense to provide a NEWS file, which lists the major new
features/changes of a new release.
This NEWS file could be written by the maintainer, that prepares the release.

Michael


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