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<p>On 11/06/2020 10:54, Russ Allbery wrote:</p>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Noel Butler <<a href="mailto:noel.butler@ausics.net" rel="noreferrer">noel.butler@ausics.net</a>> writes:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">On 11/06/2020 07:06, Russ Allbery wrote:</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Does anyone use the ChangeLog file? Maybe we should just stop<br /> generating one. We ship NEWS, which is what most people care about,<br /> and the source repository is public and easily browsable if anyone<br /> wants the detailed list of changes.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">First thing I look for is Changelog file, i stopped reading projects<br /> (not many left that bother with) NEWS files because they were not as<br /> detailed if updated at all.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Perhaps NEWS is what needs deprecating.</blockquote>
<br /> Do you find that true of INN's NEWS file? My feeling is that it's rather<br /> detailed, and I can't imagine what value you would get out of the<br /> ChangeLog that isn't in NEWS. (I personally have never read the ChangeLog<br /> file except to verify that the generation of it worked properly.)</div>
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<p>As I said, I go for Changelog file, since thats what practically every project uses,</p>
<p>I've seen so many dead space NEWS files over past few decades that I stopped looking for let alone at them.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>So if you're going to dump one I'd suggest it not be Changelog.</p>
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<p>Kind Regards,</p>
<p>Noel Butler</p>
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