On 11:05 Mon 12 Jan     , AllenJB wrote:
> In my opinion the cvs commit log and the ChangeLog serve 2 different  
> purposes. The cvs log is for developers while the ChangeLog is for  
> users. While the cvs log will likely just want to explain what change  
> was made, the ChangeLog should explain why it was made.

So if you want to know both, you need to look in 2 places? That doesn't 
seem very nice to me. Also in a distributed VCS, we'd want to generate 
ChangeLogs from the commit logs to avoid all kinds of annoying conflict 
resolution and remove redundant information.

> PS. I know about index2.xml - but that doesn't look like it's going to  
> be the main front page any time soon at the moment, which is a real  
> shame because it has some awesome changes.

I need to write up an announcement for the changes, then Xavier will 
flip the switch. Think days not weeks.

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com