Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 10:15:35 -0500
> 
> >> I'd rather just do what coreutils, grep, tar, etc. use. It's just as
> > I like what is done by those projects.  However they don't have a merge
> > workflow.  I agree with you that for Emacs release branches, maintaining
> > ChangeLog manually seems reasonable.  However how will it work for the
> > feature branches which are meant to be merge sooner or later?
> 
> The ChangeLog would only be generated into tarballs (i.e. only when
> leaving the realm of the VCS), so they just never appear on any branch.

Which means they will either have all the uncorrected mistakes (like
missing "tiny change" etc.), or you expect from Someone to do all the
fixes as part of tarring a release.  I think both alternatives are
unacceptable.