On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:39:52 -0500
Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 16:27 Mon 19 Sep     , Fabian Groffen wrote:
> > [quote from [1]]
> >    - Vote: Retroactively change existing entries, yes or no.
> >      - We will append to changelogs and retain all existing
> > changelog messages.
> > [/quote from [1]]
> > 
> > An additional advantage of keeping the file is that we can easily
> > fix all entries that people wrote/committed ugly and helpless
> > messages for, like "^" and so on.
> 
> After autogenerated ChangeLogs have existed for long enough that
> hardly anyone will need to see handwritten messages anymore (since
> they'll be old and stale, I fully intend to switch my vote to
> supporting complete autogen.

To see that, devs should be motivated not to intentionally write cruft
into commit messages and/or edit ChangeLogs.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny