[Vim-latex-devel] Automatic Changelog?

[Srinath A. <sr...@fa...>]

Hello,

After a little investigation, I found out that our Changelog file does
not follow accepted conventions... The only reference I found was the
GNU coding standard at

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_40.html#SEC40

That suggests creating entries like the following:

-----------------------------------%<-----------------------------------
2003-11-26 06:54  srinathava

	* plugin/imaps.vim (1.33.2.2):

	backport from main trunk.

2003-11-26 06:45  srinathava

	* plugin/imaps.vim (1.36):

	Bug: When &enc==utf8 and g:Imap_PlaceHolder* settings are not lower-ascii,
	     then we would get an error when we used any of the IMAP functions!
	Why: A silly little bug. An extra quote

2003-11-26 04:57  srinathava

	* makefile (1.18.2.1):

	Use the upload1.5 for the 1.5 release branch.

2003-11-25 21:34  srinathava

	* ftplugin/latex-suite/folding.vim (1.12.2.1):

	backporting changes made from main trunk.

2003-11-25 07:56  srinathava

	* ftplugin/latex-suite/folding.vim (1.14):

	Bug fix in termination condition for %fakesection was buggy
	(Zhang Lin-bo)
-----------------------------------%<-----------------------------------

I also found that there is a little utility called cvs2cl which
automatically generates GNU style changelog from an entire cvs module.
For example, the lines above were generated as

cvs2cl -r --nowrap -S -f /tmp/cl

I have a general question: (this might be of particular interest to
Mikolaj and Artur). Is there any objection to using cvs2cl from now on
to generate the Changelog automatically? We would even have a cron job
which updates the Changelog every night or something...

What say? The reason I ask is that it is becoming increasingly painful
for me to maintain a Changelog in parallel with coding. Things begin to
get out of sync etc. I understand that the present way of doing things
gives a lot of flexibility but it has the disadvantage that I need to
keep remembering _every_ time...

Srinath