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 – Website, 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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