On 03/30/2012 09:17 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: >> You you put ChangeLog to ignored list and regenerate on tarball >> > release via git log would it be possible to say the project has >> > ChangeLog or not? > > As long as there is a ChangeLog, it doesn't matter at all how it is > created, as long as it's correct, complete, and properly formatted.
One thing I forgot to mention: tooling is critical. I don't have to create properly-formatted ChangeLog entries by myself because there are tools to do it. Any change to policies requires complete tooling support or people will waste time having to generate entries by hand. Andrew.