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diff --git a/admin/notes/changelogs b/admin/notes/changelogs index 1025cfc217f..e8158060e70 100644 --- a/admin/notes/changelogs +++ b/admin/notes/changelogs @@ -1,3 +1,12 @@ +Emacs generally follows the GNU coding standards when it comes to ChangeLogs: +http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Logs.html + +One exception is that we still sometimes quote `like-this' (as the +standards used to recommend) rather than 'like-this' (as they do now), +because `...' is so widely used elsewhere in Emacs. +http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-05/msg00514.html + + If installing changes written by someone else, make the ChangeLog entry in their name, not yours. |