Please generate the ChangeLog file also for snapshots

[Noel Butler]

On 13/06/2020 03:32, Russ Allbery wrote:

> 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?

Given my experiences with dead NEWS files over time from too many
projects, force of habit would likely say possibly not, only if the
build or execution failed would I return to source tree and then i'd
likely first look at the README, if it showed nothing then possibly the
NEWS file, about the only time I'd read it, thankfully haven't had to do
that in a very very long time :) 

-- 
Kind Regards, 

Noel Butler 

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