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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2020-08-11 17:58:11 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2020-08-11 17:58:11 -0400
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CodingStandards.md: allow "bugfix on all supported versions.
Closes tpo/core/team#1 .
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```
+If a bug was introduced before the oldest currently supported release series
+of Tor, and it's hard to track down where it was introduced, you may say
+"bugfix on all supported versions of Tor."
+
If at all possible, try to create the changes file in the same commit where
you are making the change. Please give it a distinctive name that no other
branch will use for the lifetime of your change. We usually use "ticketNNNNN"