[webkit-dev] I *HATE* CHANGELOGS!!!

Geoffrey Garen ggaren at apple.com
Wed Aug 26 17:38:01 PDT 2009


> Detailed descriptions, bug links, test instructions, and a link back  
> to the entire original review history are all part of Chromium  
> commits, yet we don't use ChangeLogs.  I think discipline about what  
> to include + tooling to support it are orthogonal to a project's use  
> of a ChangeLog as the mechanism for conveying this information.

[This question not necessarily just for Peter:]

If we removed the discipline of reviewing ChangeLogs, and the tools  
that autogenerate a ChangeLog template and check for a ChangeLog entry  
without an "OOPs I didn't get this reviewed" message, what would we  
replace them with?

Geoff


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