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

[Ingmar Schlecht]

Hi Christian,

Christian Kuhn wrote:
> 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.

Sounds convincing. So lets just leave it as it is :)

cheers
Ingmar