Re: [Gaim-devel] tabs

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Morten Brix Pedersen spake unto us the following wisdom:
> * Luke Schierer <lsc...@us...> [2003-04-02 14:34:19]:
> > true, but many commits are fixing bugs that didn't exist in the previou=
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> > version, and thus aren't _changes_.  or fixing bugs in a feature that h=
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> > been added since the last version, but didn't work perfectly the first =
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> > it was committed, and noted in the changelog. its these, the majority o=
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> > commits, that make the changelog painful on a commit-by-commit basis.
> > luke
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> 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.

That is very much an opinion ... and one I am inclined to disagree
with.  Since we have CVS logs to track commit-by-commit changes
(although the commit messages are not always what they could be), I
don't see any need to duplicate that information.  I like to see major
changes since the last release when I look at a ChangeLog.

Ethan

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