[RFC] Policy change for ChangeLog

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Josh Sled <jsled at asynchronous.org>:

> On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:25 -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
>> Comments?
>
> This change is fine with me, and sounds good.

Before we go ahead with this, I'd like to hear from Chris Lyttle
and Christian Stimming..  They're the ones who usually use the
ChangeLog to generate the NEWS and release notes.  I'd like to
hear if they are willing to accept the new process going forward.

At some level it's OUR job as developers to make OTHERS lives
easier..  While we should certainly use tools to make OUR lives
easier, we need to think of who is using what we create and how
they use it.  Making life easier for us at their expense is NOT
okay.  So, I'd like to hear from wilddev and cstim first.

Personally, I like being able to grep through the changelog in order
to see, e.g. whether a particular change made it into a particular
release.  I suppose I can always redirect the log/status command into
a file and grep it there.

-derek

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