Re: Suggestion: linkify revnums and issues in the CHANGES file

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:00:39PM +0200, Branko Čibej wrote:
> Given all the debate we've had about how to edit and merge the CHANGES
> file on trunk and release branches ... how about only having the change
> log in the wiki, with CHANGES containing only a pointer to the wiki page?

My impression is that shipping CHANGES in tarballs is rather
important for our downstream consumers.

Consumers of our source tarballs are generally system packagers who
need a quick overview of what has changed. Some of them also copy
parts of our changelog into files of their own, e.g. SUSE does this
and is able to display changelog entries to their users during
system upgrades. A plaintext file is very useful in those cases,
but a separate page has numerous drawbacks: Getting a non-marked-up
text representation is cumbersome, the service might not be reachable
at a given momtent for various reasons, the wiki text may change over
time while it is constant in a released version.
Received on 2018-09-13 12:25:21 CEST