I don't like self-advertising, but ... * Steven Bosscher wrote on Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 03:05:45PM CEST: > Perhaps it is possible to create some kind of check-patch script for > GCC too, e.g. one that checks the following things at least: > * ChangeLog presence > * ChangeLog format and completeness > * formatting / coding style of the patch itself > > We should perhaps make tools available in contrib/ that help people > set up things properly for patch submission. For example Diego had a > script that extracts a skeleton ChangeLog from a patch, perhaps it > should be put in contrib/ and advertised somewhere (e.g. wiki).
FWIW, I wrote vc-chlog a while ago (ships together with vc-dwim[1]) which IMVHO is fairly accurate at creating stub ChangeLog entries if you have Exuberant Ctags installed. Without it, updates to the GCC build system would have been rather painful. I would add blurb about it in the wiki if that is acceptable. Cheers, Ralf [1] www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/