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Re: [PATCH] CHANGELOG: remove disused file


From: John Snow
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CHANGELOG: remove disused file
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:21:59 -0400
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On 10/23/20 2:51 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
On 23/10/2020 18.34, John Snow wrote:
On 10/23/20 1:43 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
On 22/10/2020 18.28, John Snow wrote:
There's no reason to keep this here; the versions described are
ancient. Everything here is still mirrored on
https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/old if anyone is curious; otherwise, use
the git history.

Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
---
   Changelog | 580 ------------------------------------------------------
   1 file changed, 580 deletions(-)
   delete mode 100644 Changelog

diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
deleted file mode 100644
index f7e178ccc01..00000000000
--- a/Changelog
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,580 +0,0 @@
-This file documents changes for QEMU releases 0.12 and earlier.
-For changelog information for later releases, see
-https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog or look at the git history for
-more detailed information.

I agree with removing the old log. But should we maybe leave a pointer to
https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog / the git history here to let people know
how to see the changelogs?

   Thomas


Maybe in README.rst, just below "Bug Reporting" and above "Contact" ?


Changelog
=========

For version history and release notes, please visit
`<https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/>`_ or look at the git history for more
detailed information.

Ok, but IIRC the "ChangeLog" file is a standard file in GNU coding
conventions, so it might be worth to keep the information in this file ...
of course we are not bound to the GNU conventions in QEMU, but users still
might expect to find the information in here...

  Thomas


My point in removing it is just getting rid of the runaround. If we don't have the changelog information in CHANGELOG, why have the file and pretend like we do?

Moving it into README.rst makes it visible on github and gitlab to people stopping by for the first time.

--js




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