ftplugin/changelog.vim

Enforce vim script implementation to reduce ambiguities and improve robustness:

scriptversion 4

For old fashioned projects with hand crafted ChangeLog files, :NewChangelogEntry is fantastic laziness.

const g:changelog_username = g:user_email

Tip

You can also fiddle with the g:changelog_new_date_format and g:changelog_new_entry_format to make it match various different formats in use. For me, the only project that still keeps a hand crafted ChangeLog exactly matches the default.