Allow different names for Changelog
The fact of encouraging people to add changelog, readme and license files to their projects if not available yet is great!
If a project contains a file named "Changes" but not "CHANGELOG", it is not detected as a changelog by the GitLab web interface. One of my project contains such a file and it is not "recognized" properly and it is annoying that the application is giving the option of creating another one.
Some communities have the habit and convention of using such files (e.g. Perl modules). It is similar to the fact that GitLab handle correctly plain text README
or README.md
without doing a discrimination. I remember that at some point, Github was not supporting plain text README files, so it was kind of forcing the use of .md
files, and many did it to get the automatic display of the file on the project home.
Some believe it is better to use plain text for this kind of files. I think those application shouldn't force you, as long the user choice is acceptable.