Re: [Gaim-devel] tabs

[Morten B. P. <mo...@wt...>]

* Luke Schierer <lsc...@us...> [2003-04-02 14:34:19]:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:33:19PM +1000, Vincent Ho wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 03:57:26PM -0500, Luke Schierer wrote:
> > 
> > > the changelog is a pain to edit on a commit-by-commit basis.
> > 
> > No more of a pain than to edit any other file.  Just leave it open when
> > you're editing other source files and it's no hassle to switch buffers
> > and add a line.
> 
> true, but many commits are fixing bugs that didn't exist in the previous 
> version, and thus aren't _changes_.  or fixing bugs in a feature that has 
> been added since the last version, but didn't work perfectly the first time 
> it was committed, and noted in the changelog. its these, the majority of 
> commits, that make the changelog painful on a commit-by-commit basis.
> luke

The ChangeLog is not meant to track changes between releases. Its meant
to track code changes. The NEWS file is used to track changes betweeen
releases.

  - Morten.

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