On Wed, 10 Jan 2018, John Darrington wrote:
> b) Simply require that the commit message of the VCS takes the same format
> and information that we currently use for the ChangeLog entry, and auto
> generate the ChangeLog using the message previously entered by the
> committer.
>
> I think that a) would be non-trivial. But b) would indeed be trivial. Why
> don't
> we allow maintainers (at their option) to do the 3b approach?
The standards *already* allow 3b, and have for over 20 years
(standards.texi, r1.27, 9 Sep 1996, "Another alternative is to record
change log information with a version control system such as RCS or CVS.
This can be converted automatically to a @file{ChangeLog} file.").
This discussion has always been about the ChangeLog format, not about the
use of automatic generation of a ChangeLog file from commit messages.
--
Joseph S. Myers
[email protected]
