[Development] Proposal: let's use Markdown for the dist/changes changelog

[Shawn Rutledge]

> On 2 Nov 2020, at 20:03, Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen at gmx.de> wrote:
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> On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 10:26:31AM +0000, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
>> [stuff about changelogs]
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> for completeness:
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> some of your points re-iterate what has already been said in https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTQAINFRA-1960 (which presumably needs a revision for the now used go program).

Commented

> and the bigger-picture issues have overlap with https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTQAINFRA-933

Yes crowd-sourcing it sounds interesting, but then it’s another tool to fork and maintain, and maintain infrastructure for.

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>> We could also make the sanity bot complain when a change that includes a bug-fix does not include a ChangeLog entry.
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> https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtrepotools/+/185645 is awaiting appropriate admin action for *years*.

And it has +2 but is that enough?