[Development] ChangeLogs

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org
> [mailto:development-bounces+kai.koehne=digia.com at qt-project.org] On
> Behalf Of Matt Williams
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:14 AM
> To: development
> Subject: Re: [Development] ChangeLogs
> 
> On 29 January 2013 00:31, Alan Alpert <416365416c at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:21 AM, Jason McDonald
> <macadder1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 4. Let's try to make the job of our maintainers that little bit
> >> easier by writing good commit summaries and diligently reviewing the
> >> commit summaries of our peers.
> >
> > +1, but I think the tool is a more realistic way of making the task
> > easier for the maintainers.
> 
> Within KDE we use a tool called Enzyme (http://enzyme-project.org/) which
> allows you to go through all the commits, marking certain ones as interesting
> in a collaborative way. It might not have _all_ the feature needed but it
> would probably help along the way. It's open-source so we could always
> tweak it as needed.

I'm all for a tool making things easier for the one writing the actual ChangeLog file. But I think it's somewhat orthogonal to the question whether the original author of a fix should write a ChangeLog line somewhere, too .

So, did we come to any conclusion regarding adding a "ChangeLog: " entry to commits? IMO it's worth a try.

Regards

Kai