Keep a CHANGELOG (Changelog Interviews #127)

Adam and Jerod talk with Olivier Lacan about keeping a CHANGELOG and his passion for keeping a human facing, readable history, for software projects.

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Featuring:

• Olivier Lacan – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Olivier Lacan


• Keep a Changelog


• olivierlacan/keep-a-changelog


• @Changelog: On ‘Keeping a CHANGELOG’ …


• The standard CHANGELOG file for all open source projects


• Why not just use GitHub release notes?


• Isn’t a CHANGELOG about all changes not just important changes?


• Keep a changelog for each minor release?


• Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


• Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


• Lawrence Lessig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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