ChangeLog entries for documentation

ChangeLog entries for documentation

[Jim Blandy]

(I expect this'll show up in the GNU coding standards pretty soon.)

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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
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Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 17:09:28 -0500
Subject: Change Logs
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In the past our policy was not to mention changes to documentation
files in ChangeLog, to save space.  (Some people did not follow this
policy.)

I've been advised that for the sake of tracking copyrightable
contributions better we should start mentioning such changes
in ChangeLog files.

You need not go into much detail about what the change was.  Just say
what part of the documentation file was changed (if it has parts and
the change was localized in one part), and whether the changes were
major or minor.


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Re: ChangeLog entries for documentation

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 22 Dec 2002, Jim Blandy wrote:

> (I expect this'll show up in the GNU coding standards pretty soon.)

I was never happy with RMS's policy of not having ChangeLog entries for 
the docs.  I was glad to find out that GDB already follows this new 
policy from the day I started contributing to GDB.

So we are okay already.

Thanks for forwarding this, though.