On Sat, 2020-01-25 at 10:50 -0500, Nathan Sidwell wrote: > On 1/24/20 4:36 PM, Jeff Law wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-01-24 at 20:32 +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote: > > > > I strongly prefer to move towards relying on the git log. > > > > > > In my experience the output of git log is a total mess so cannot replace > > > ChangeLogs. But we can well decide to drop ChangeLog for the testsuite. > > Well, glibc has moved to extracting them from git, building policies > > and scripts around that. I'm pretty sure other significant projecs are > > also extracting their ChangeLogs from git. > > > > We could do the same, selecting some magic date as the cutover point > > after which future ChangeLogs are extracted from GIT. In fact, that's > > precisely what I'd like to see us do. > > The GCC10 release date would seem a good point to do this. That gives us > around > 3 months to figure the details (and get stakeholder buy-in) Yup. That would be what I'd recommend we shoot for. As you say it gives time to work on the details and for folks to start changing their habits.
jeff
