From: "Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
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Subject: RE: DJGPP CVS users
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 10:01:26 +0100
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> It's tricky, believe me.  As an evidence, please look at standards.texi, 
> the GNU coding standards document: it has a whole section on how to write 
> good ChangeLog entries (and that section just got larger in the last 
> version as I  asked Richard Stallman to add some more there, because some 
> of his requirements were never documented before).
> 
> It is even trickier for people who don't use Emacs, and a very recent 
> version of it, because then they need to watch out for all kinds of 
> small gotchas and fix them by hand.
> 
> So if we ask for ChangeLog entries, we will need to have a ChangeLog 
> Police to enforce the standards.  That's more workload on those who 
> participate in peer reviews.  Those people are already overworked, so 
> please let's not add anything that isn't absolutely necessary.
I wasn't suggesting a GNU-standard ChangeLog; just some file (call it
CVSLogs.txt if you want) that would keep a central record of all CVS
log messages (useful when working off-line, for example).

> (And, btw, rcs2log doesn't DTRT in many cases, if you want the standard 
> ChangeLog entries.)
It has is flaws indeed. I tried that cvs2cl.pl script Bill Currie suggested
and it seems to give much better results. As a drawback, it requires Perl.