moving away from changelog.dd?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, December 24, 2012 11:41:22 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 12/24/12 8:59 AM, SomeDude wrote:
> > On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 03:51:37 UTC, Bernard Helyer wrote:
> >> On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 03:48:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
> >> 
> >> wrote:
> >>> Some other way may as well be introduce entries in bugzilla.
> >> 
> >> Is adding things that don't belong in bugzilla to bugzilla really
> >> a great idea?
> > 
> > Such as what ?
> 
> Same question - far as I can tell Bugzilla is meant to track all changes
> to a software product, so I'd be hard pressed to come with something
> that's not appropriate for it.

How about the very example that I gave about specifically providing a note to 
developers about the impending changes to std.format? No bug had been fixed, 
and no enhancement request had been implemented. No code change had even taken 
place yet. It was a note about a future change that developers needed to be 
made aware of.

And while you _could_ put stuff like the inclusion of a new module in bugzilla, 
I really don't think that it belongs there. Bugzilla is for bug reports and 
enhancement requests, not for notes about changes to the code base. You can 
look at source control for those.

I don't understand why you're so against having notes from human beings in the 
changelog. Yes, automating the list of bugs would be great, because that list 
is tedious and error-prone, but I dispute that it buys us anything to try and 
do the same with the WHATSNEW section. If anything, it makes things worse by 
trying to shoehorn non-bugs into bug reports.

- Jonathan M Davis