Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 05:23:46 +0100
> 
> >> Introduce code reviews. Don't give commit access to the "golden"
> >> branches to everyone, just to a few top contributors and reviewers.
> >
> > We don't have manpower for that.
> 
> I find perplexing that we have manpower for reviewing ChangeLogs but not
> for reviewing commit logs *instead*.

I'm surprised that you find it perplexing.

Log messages are much shorter than code diffs, and much simpler to
read and understand.  It takes a few seconds to read them; reading a
code patch takes much more, typically needs to consult the surrounding
and related code, etc.  So code review takes orders of magnitude more
time than reviewing the corresponding log entries.

> And is it so super-important to have typo-free commit logs?

Typos is the least of our problems.  But yes, it's important: if you
start by forgiving typos, you end with unhelpful and uninformative log
messages.

> We are not even using `git notes'.

No one came up with a detailed procedure for doing that.  If you can
propose something that works, please do.