* holger krekel <holger@merlinux.eu> [2015-12-11 14:29:35 +0000]:
I was wondering about the practise to have PR authors add themselves to AUTHORS and CHANGELOG. The latter particularly is a bit odd, i.e. to thank yourself for submitting a PR.
I agree - I've even been asked on Twitter before from some pytest user about this.
What do you all think about having the merger do this last bit (changelog entry)? AUTHORS can also be usually obtained from the history so that contributors can concentrate on tests, code and possibly docs.
I have a more radical view: Do we really want "thanks" in the changelog at all? IMHO they're just unnecessary noise. We already express our gratitude as a PR comment and we give credit by listing people in AUTHORS, so I'd rather not have this in the changelog as well. The job of it, after all, is for someone to view *what changed*. If I want to know *who* changed something, I can easily look it up. Florian -- http://www.the-compiler.org | me@the-compiler.org (Mail/XMPP) GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc I love long mails! | http://email.is-not-s.ms/