Re: Using more verbose ChangeLog format for GLib and GTK+

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 10:33 +0000, Martyn Russell wrote:
> 
> Behdad, if you used my maintainer script, you wouldn't have to copy
> those bugs from the ChangeLog into the NEWS file either, the script
> can
> do that for you also. It gets the description of the bug from Bugzilla
> so there is no need to include it in the ChangeLog either, you can
> instead have your own description of what you changed. Often I find
> bug
> titles aren't exactly that informative compared to the ChangeLog too.

Sure.  That means I fix the bug title first.  We all have our own
scripts...  The fact is still there that the proposal makes ChangeLog
more readable.

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