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<p>I use the CHANGELOG tag quite often. The difference being that the summary is perhaps something like "Avoid null pointer dereference" with CHANGELOG being a more friendly line for the changelog "Fix crash when doing xyz".</p></div>
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<p>I went quickly through KScreen, libkscreen, KWin, KWayland, plasma-desktop and plasma-workspace repositories to check if you're an outlier or if it is more often used than I expected. Results:</p>
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padding: 3px 6px;">Repo</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">Commits w. <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">CHANGELOG</tt></td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">Last usage</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">Kai Uwe share</td></tr>
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padding: 3px 6px;">KScreen</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">2</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">May 2016</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">0%</td></tr>
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padding: 3px 6px;">libkscreen</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">2</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">Sep 2017</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">0%</td></tr>
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padding: 3px 6px;">KWin</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">2</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">Mar 2017</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">100%</td></tr>
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padding: 3px 6px;">KWayland</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">1</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">Oct 2016</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">0%</td></tr>
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padding: 3px 6px;">plasma-desktop</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">26</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">Jun 2019</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">92%</td></tr>
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padding: 3px 6px;">plasma-workspace</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">41</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">Aug 2019</td><td style="background: #ffffff;
padding: 3px 6px;">88%</td></tr>
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<p>So I admire your expertness on using the available tools to their fullest potential in contrast to everybody else but the numbers also show that the concept hasn't really caught on. I think a more integrated approach in the commit workflow with the prefix can improve the changelogs also quite much. Maybe this will then also encourage people to use the CHANGELOG keyword more often. Since of course with a common prefix it would still be possible to use the keyword.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R104 KScreen</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D24068">https://phabricator.kde.org/D24068</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>romangg, Plasma<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>broulik, ngraham, plasma-devel, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, jraleigh, fbampaloukas, GB_2, ragreen, ZrenBot, alexeymin, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart<br /></div>