Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Also update ChangerLog file. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Magnus Hagander
Subject Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Also update ChangerLog file.
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Msg-id 9837222c1001090902n3c3fc8a6yf071b93cf58fb6e0@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Also update ChangerLog file.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 17:55, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Michael Meskes <meskes@postgresql.org> writes:
>> On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:41:10PM +0100, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>>> Hmm not sure I find that commit message really helpful - but is it
>>> actually of any use to maintain a Changelog file specifically for
>>> ECPG?
>
>> Makes it easier to see what's new in ecpg when doing a new
>> release. But I guess we could get all this from the cvs log too. The
>> file has been there for a long time.
>
> Well, I'm pretty sure that release notes are prepared off of the cvs log
> entries.  I've never looked at ecpg's Changelog when working on notes,
> and I'd be prepared to bet that Bruce hasn't either.  My advice is to
> drop the Changelog file and be sure you describe changes appropriately
> in the commit messages.

+1.
Seems really weird (and unnecessary) to have a changelog for just one
small "subsystem", when we don't have it for the others.

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