moving away from changelog.dd?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Sunday, December 23, 2012 20:55:03 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> We've discussed this a bit before. It's becoming obvious that
> changelog.dd doesn't scale well: it's difficult to keep in sync, people
> forget to add bugs to it etc.
> 
> How about we abolish changelog.dd in favor of bugzilla queries? There's
> a simple rule to follow: all changes should have a corresponding entry
> in bugzilla. This is easy to enforce.
> 
> 
> Destroy,

It's not enough. We need to be able to add items to the changelog separately 
from bugzilla. There are pretty much always extra items in the changelog which 
are not bug reports or enhancement requests, and many of them make no sense as 
items in bugzilla - especially when the whole point of putting them there is 
to explain something rather than listing a bug number.

So, I fully support doing something to automate the portion of the changelog 
which contains all of the bugzilla entries, but the portion above that where 
non-bugzilla stuff is entered still needs to be there. We can handle it in some 
way other than changelog.dd if we want to, but we still need a way to enter 
stuff into the changelog by hand.

- Jonathan M Davis