Re: Script to generate ChangeLogs automatically

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 04/12/18 1:20 AM, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Chet has maintained Bash for a very long time successfully, the setup
> works for him.  As such, it cannot be the bottom worst but rather the
> opposite.  In some ways I can think that maybe even the lack of VCS
> might be a good thing here.

I started writing a long rant about this but then I realized that it's 
going to only derail the conversation so I've redacted it.  Despite my 
reservations about the workflow, I really appreciate the work Chet has 
put into bash and am grateful for it.

> Jospeh mentioned that we should trust maintainers, so why not trust
> that bash in this regard lacking a VCS?  And wouldn't it have been
> nice if Bash now had ChangeLog entries? :-)

Those are not equivalent arguments; nobody's mandating that the bash 
project uses a VCS and in the way that's considered best practice in the 
larger FOSS community.

Siddhesh