Please generate the ChangeLog file also for snapshots

Russ Allbery eagle at eyrie.org
Fri Jun 12 17:32:28 UTC 2020


Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net> writes:

> As I said, I go for Changelog file, since thats what practically every
> project uses,

> I've seen so many dead space NEWS files over past few decades that I
> stopped looking for let alone at them.

> This is typical of people who want to be kept updated, they look in
> Changelog as thats where time and mass usage has shown to be the place
> to look at.

This doesn't seem like an argument for keeping the ChangeLog file, in that
you're not identifying any content missing from NEWS that you found in
ChangeLog.  If anything, it seems to be an argument for renaming NEWS to
ChangeLog.

If ChangeLog didn't exist, would you not look at NEWS instead?

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