Commit messages and ChangeLog (Re: [PHP-DEV] ChangeLog)

On Fri, 28 May 2010, Pierre Joye wrote: > 2010/5/28 Johannes Schlüter <johannes@schlueters.de>: > > > Is anybody using this file? If this is thee case could somebody then > > make sure it's being updated (and maybe take care of > > ChangeLog-200[6-9].gz being created) else I'd suggest dropping them. An > > outdated file might be confusing for users expecting content like we > > have in the NEWS file there. > > I do, what's about only changing how it is generated to generated > changes since last release instead? > > I'd to add that unless we add everything in the NEWS file, the > ChangeLog remains the only way to have a list of all changes (without > doing manually). Isn't that what "svn log -v" now provides? The format is slightly different of course, but it does provide the same info. Although it does seem that we need to get ourselves more diciplined into writing the commit messages according to the prefered format[1] again. [1] http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/trunk/README.SVN-RULES?view=annotate#l90 with kind regards, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug