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authorDavid Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>2020-07-16 13:34:52 -0400
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doc: Update our requirements for changes file
Closes tpo/core/team#3. Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
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## How we log changes
+Before diving in the details on how to write a changes file, note that we do
+NOT require a changes file for:
+
+ * Any change to a file that is not distributed in the tarball. This
+ includes:
+ - Any change to our CI configuration that does not affect the distributed
+ source.
+ - Any change to developer-only tools, unless those tools are distributed
+ in the tarball.
+ * Non-functional code movement.
+ * Identifier re-namings, comment edits, spelling fixes, and so on.
+
When you do a commit that needs a ChangeLog entry, add a new file to
the `changes` toplevel subdirectory. It should have the format of a
one-entry changelog section from the current ChangeLog file, as in