ChangeLog is outdated

[p-alik]

no updates since "1.1.12 Sun Feb 9 04:27:38 PST 2014"

[esabol]

I think @SpamapS killed it in favor of git log, but I prefer reading a more curated list of changes whenever I approach a new package of software, so I'd like to see the ChangeLog updated and maintained. Just my two cents....

[SpamapS]

So, I agree that a curated changelog is nice to have. However, I haven't had the time to make one with every release.

Note that I did do one for v1.1.16 in the tag annotation:

$ git show 1.1.16
tag 1.1.16
Tagger: Clint Byrum <clint@fewbar.com>
Date:   Tue May 23 09:35:01 2017 -0700

Bugfix release including:
- Fixes to HTTP protocol plugin and background jobs
- Redis queue plugin refactored
- TCP Keepalive settings are properly respected
- Various fixes for stricter C++11 compilation
- Changed from CYaSSL to WolfSSL
- Various fixes to memcached queue plugin
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commit e3dbdda3dab290790c10cd6be815c45cb2dd3054
Merge: 4ee46f8 c906a12
Author: bonnyci[bot] <bonnyci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Thu May 18 18:44:32 2017 +0000

    Merge pull request #104 from p-alik/http-plugin

    gearmand should release http client if request contains 'X-Gearman-Background: true' header

    Reviewed-by: https://github.com/bonnyci[bot]

We could make that a regular thing. But putting it in git as a file makes very little sense since git's entire purpose in life is literally to document changes.

Also, note that 'make dist' puts a git based changelog in every tarball. It's not pretty, but it is automated.

$ head -100 ChangeLog 

HEAD -> upstream_master, tag: 1.1.15, upstream/master - 2017-02-17 Fix
comparison of pointer and bool
 - 2016-12-26 Fix specfile for renamed README
 - 2016-12-26 Update readme md (#66)
 - 2016-12-14 remove gearmand text command shutdown (#40)

kris-lab-priority-status - 2016-12-14 Fixed typo (jon_queued ->
job_queued)
 - 2016-12-14 Added "prioritystatus" command to display queued jobs
 broken down by priority.

origin/master, origin/HEAD, master - 2016-12-03 Turn on artifact storage

automate-travis - 2016-11-27 Use _exit() in fork test to fix race (#47)

chenzi2015-master - 2016-11-18 add "redis-password" option to redis
 - 2016-11-22 bug fixing:  instead of undefined
 - 2016-11-22 bsd portable shebang
 - 2016-11-19 Ignore tarballs built as a result of 'make dist'

tag: 1.1.14, upstream/upstream_master - 2016-11-16 Fix typos found by
Debian lintian
 - 2016-11-03 Do not exceed 80 chars per line
 - 2016-11-03 Redis queue: take server address into account
 - 2016-11-03 redis queue: improve debugging
 - 2016-10-19 Travis: ensure redis support is built and tested
 - 2016-10-18 redis queue: fix loading old jobs from the database
 - 2016-10-14 bug fixing: http response with empty content
 - 2016-10-12 Include docs in dist tarball
 - 2016-09-22 travis build matrix with different compilers
 - 2016-09-23 replace launchpad urls by github [ci skip]
 - 2016-09-25 Generate ChangeLog in make dist
 - 2016-09-24 Use git describe to determine version
 - 2016-07-06 bug fixing: http response an empty content on post
 request. (lp rev 910)
 - 2016-07-02 bug fix endless loop on http bad request or bad method
 (lp rev802)
 - 2016-07-03 Add documentation for the purpose of Unique ID
 - 2016-07-03 Add basic documentation of undocumented protocol
 - 2016-07-03 Fix "make install"
 - 2016-07-03 Fix typo in protocol docs
 - 2016-06-30 Move build-aux higher in configure.ac
 - 2016-06-30 Add docs/build to .gitignore
 - 2016-06-30 Add files bzr automatically ignores to .gitignore
 - 2016-06-30 Change build to use git instead of bzr
 - 2016-06-30 Change bzr to git in HACKING/README
 - 2016-06-29 add travis build badge [ci skip]
 - 2016-06-29 Add Travis CI integration
 - 2016-06-29 Create README.md
 - 2016-06-29 renamed:    .bzrignore -> .gitignore
 - 2014-02-15 Fix for NOTPARALLEL issue on building docs.
 - 2014-02-12 Merge bzr://10.0.3.21/ Build: jenkins-Gearmand-1026
 - 2014-02-12 Fix make man to not slow down main build.
 - 2014-02-12 Fix for constant recompile issue.
 - 2014-02-11 Simplify how we grab artifact.
 - 2014-02-10 Fix bad macro.
 - 2014-02-10 Remove dead rpm.am file.
 - 2014-02-10 Merge bzr://gaz.haus/ Build: jenkins-Gearmand-1011

So, I guess what I'm saying is, make good commit messages, and we won't have to worry about curating after the fact.