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Re: ChangeLog entry complexity
On 03/11/2013 05:46 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> My feeling is that it's a pretty good proxy for the level of attention to
> detail that we want to instill in all our contributors anyway. So I think
> the idea that being loose about this usefully lowers the barrier to entry
> for new contributors is a false economy.
Agreed.
Even if I agreed that the ChangeLog file was useless I'd still want
to require the same level of structured change documentation for
a project of this type. So why change one for the other? Let us stay
with detailed ChangeLogs.
Cheers,
Carlos.