> It would be probably reasonable these days to require of someone who > wants to do serious development to just download a SVN checkout > for that [or they can use svnweb on http://gcc.gnu.org]
I agree. But I think the idea of the ChangeLog is for somewhere just short of "serious development". I'm not too far from being willing to agree that ChangeLog is now hopelessly anachronistic (though I'm not there yet), but feel that this is really an FSF issue, not a GCC one.
