RFC: Rename existing ChangeLogs

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 02/17/2012 05:39 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that ChangeLogs are not being updated,
.. a fact I consider to be a serious regression, which needs to be reverted.

... ATM, you do not see what has changed without digging deeply into git.

> leaving them
> in place is potentially confusing.
That's an utter understatement. The current state is unusable.

> I have already had one user
> ask privately why a change wasn't listed in it.


> I propose we rename them. Possible destination names:
>
> ChangeLog-pregit
> ChangeLog-cvs
> ChangeLog-pre2012
>
> Comments?
>
I propose to resume the old conventions of manually writing ChangeLogs.

Ralf