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diff --git a/doc/HACKING b/doc/HACKING index 9747f2265..b0689d82c 100644 --- a/doc/HACKING +++ b/doc/HACKING @@ -426,10 +426,10 @@ interesting and understandable. first entry or two and the last entry most interesting: they're the ones that skimmers tend to read. - 2.4) Clean them up + 2.4) Clean them up: Standard idioms: - "Fixes bug 9999; Bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha." + "Fixes bug 9999; bugfix on 0.3.3.3-alpha." One period after a space. @@ -446,6 +446,11 @@ interesting and understandable. Present and imperative tense: not past. + Try not to let any given section be longer than about a page. Break up + long sections into subsections by some sort of common subtopic. This + guideline is especially important when organizing Release Notes for + new stable releases. + If a given changes stanza showed up in a different release (e.g. maint-0.2.1), be sure to make the stanzas identical (so people can distinguish if these are the same change). |