[tor-commits] [tor/master] extract some changelog principles into doc/HACKING

[nickm at torproject.org]

commit 8a647291c837846dca73c2017d3101621fd25a8d
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org>
Date:   Wed Mar 19 20:24:15 2014 -0400

    extract some changelog principles into doc/HACKING
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 doc/HACKING |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/HACKING b/doc/HACKING
index 3c1d0d9..ea7d82d 100644
--- a/doc/HACKING
+++ b/doc/HACKING
@@ -474,6 +474,10 @@ interesting and understandable.
 
    Present and imperative tense: not past.
 
+   'Relays', not 'servers' or 'nodes' or 'Tor relays'.
+
+   "Stop FOOing", not "Fix a bug where we would FOO".
+
    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