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Restrict documentation change log

waiver to only apply to ChangeLog files.
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Thien-Thi Nguyen 2001-11-12 07:19:16 +00:00
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@ -448,12 +448,10 @@ alias for scm_map that guarantees the order in which we process list
elements, but we're not changing scm_map at all --- it's appropriate
to use the Scheme name in the log entry.
- There's no need to keep a change log for documentation files. This
is because documentation is not susceptible to bugs that are hard to
fix. Documentation does not consist of parts that must interact in a
precisely engineered fashion; to correct an error, you need not know
the history of the erroneous passage. (This is copied from the GNU
coding standards.)
- There's no need to keep a change log for a ChangeLog file. For any
other kind of file (including documentation, since our documentation
is indeed precisely engineered -- we surpass GNU standards here), add
an appropriate ChangeLog entry when you change it. Simple!
- Make sure you have papers from people before integrating their
changes or contributions. This is very frustrating, but very