On Nov 30, 2007, at 21:32, jmpp@macports.org wrote:
The ChangeLog was orignally meant to be a user-parsable file listing only major changes to base, so that we could use it in our release process to advertise our new goodies. Unfortunately, lately it has turned into a litle bit of a file tracking commits to base, with a little bit of user level information and a lot of gaps in between to do either one right, bleh!
Therefore add a real user-parsable NEWS file in which new features and bug fixes for each release will be advertised, starting with the contents of 1.6.0
Here's hoping that from now on the ChangeLog will turn into a file that truly tracks commits to base, with proper revision numbers for each entry and ticket numbers in case of bug fixes, after being spared from having to remain user-parsable.
Can't people who are interested in that kind of information just read the Subversion log? I don't want to have to bother with updating the ChangeLog every time I change something on base. Granted, it's not that often for me. But for others who make many changes on base, this would seem to be annoying.