Every time I upgrade my project’s dependencies using and it cannot find a change log I create an issue titled “Add changelog”. Most of them were ignored, sometimes maintainers answer something that means “fuck off”, very rarely they listen. npm-upgrade A good change log answers these questions for the project’s user: What’s the new value for my project in the new version? What are the breaking changes? How can I migrate my codebase to the new version? Were my issues fixed? A change log is a tool that helps you decide to upgrade or not and to evaluate the benefits and the cost of the upgrade. A good change log is: Written for humans, not computers. Understandable by users, not just contributors. Not a Git commit log. Written by a project maintainer — don’t ask for a pull request. You should read this and add a change log to your open source project today. awesome guide

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