Re: Whither changelogs

2021-10-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2021 06 Oct 09:04 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Why is Vim, or this plugin you speak of, disregarding the modeline at > the bottom of the file? At the risk of wading into this, I just want to note that on Debian, modelines are disabled by default and it is up to the user to enable them:

Re: Whither changelogs

2021-10-07 Thread Keith Marshall
On 06/10/2021 15:03, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2021-10-05T08:56:24+0100, Keith Marshall wrote: >> Why do you waste your time, indulging in such asinine whimsy? Why >> introduce a commit which contributes absolutely zero value? > > I object to your characterization, but I do it because exces

Re: Whither changelogs

2021-10-06 Thread Richard Morse
> On Oct 6, 2021, at 10:03 AM, G. Branden Robinson > wrote: > > At 2021-10-05T08:56:24+0100, Keith Marshall wrote: >> The sooner we deprecate free-standing ChangeLog files, the better, >> IMO. > > My resistance this idea lies in the fact that people err, including in > commit messages, but co

Whither changelogs

2021-10-06 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2021-10-05T08:56:24+0100, Keith Marshall wrote: > Seriously, Branden? > > On 03/10/2021 14:20, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > gbranden pushed a commit to branch master > > in repository groff. > > > > commit fc6989ae19146294bcf27d08453c6005a8b363c5 > > Author: G. Branden Robinson > > AuthorDa