Re: [gentoo-dev] Devmanual text on ChangeLogs

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Sat, 30 Apr 2011, Petteri Räty wrote:

> I propose a simple new text: "Every commit should have an entry in
> ChangeLog."

This would throw the baby out with the bath water.

I won't clutter ChangeLogs with useless entries for whitespace changes
or spelling fixes in comments, for example. They already account for a
considerable (too large?) percentage of the portage tree [1], and we
shouldn't blow them up further by adding useless information.

Ulrich

[1] http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2009/09/28/the-size-of-the-gentoo-tree
    (this is from 2009, so probably it's even worse now)