[TYPO3-core] RFC: #11473: ChangeLog is quite big and could be split to multiple files

[Christian Kuhn]

Hey.

Ingmar Schlecht wrote:
> Type: Organizational things
> 
> Bugtracker references:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=11473
> 
> Problem:
> The ChangeLog file is getting bigger and bigger, though usually people
> are only interested in the changes since the last major revision.

Sry, but I'm against any change here. I won't veto or -1 this, but a
complete Changelog in one file is of practical use for me:

- I quite often hunt for regressions / changes using svn log / svn diff,
and search in the Changelog (sometimes many years back). If I need to
jump through different files this would just be a waste of time. It just
helps my style of development if I have the full Changelog at one place.

- If I clean up old bugs in the bugtracker, I often like to search in
the full Changelog, too. If we separate the file I have to grep through
many files in different checkouts. This is inconvenient.

- I don't see a point in reducing the Changelog, a compressed Changelog
is currently less than 100kb big, with 6 years of history in it. Even if
 this doubles or triples in size the next years ... I don't care, who does?

- Any serious administrator will delete Changelog, NEWS.txt and all
other static textfiles on production systems anyway, just to not give an
attacker too much helping information. Again, size is no argument here.

Just my 2 cents
Christian