Well, because *you* don't look at it doesn't mean it's not the right place, does it? <g> I look at the CVS history quite often, and I find that in many cases it's the best way to find out why things are done a certain way.
Ah, but I suspect that I am more representative of the typical hacker than you are, in this regard. Further, attempting to comprehend the changelog without the context of the relevant source code is generally unrewarding for me.
However, I think I realize that my post and thread is largely useless. As much as I think you err on the side of brevity, I suspect that, except for my patches, you rarely go around deleting comments from code...
Jer