commit 2032d7ca6f0d082c3774c922944feb7d73c8a851 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Thu Sep 21 16:39:49 2017 -0400

Update CodingStandards.md for changes-file stuff

'check-changes' is now part of "make check", and must pass. --- doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md b/doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md index 1012a4c9c..2980b775f 100644 --- a/doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md +++ b/doc/HACKING/CodingStandards.md @@ -96,17 +96,14 @@ you can use `git describe --contains <sha1 of commit>`. If at all possible, try to create this file in the same commit where you are making the change. Please give it a distinctive name that no other branch will use for the lifetime of your change. To verify the format of the changes file, -you can use `make check-changes`. +you can use `make check-changes`. This is run automatically as part of +`make check` -- if it fails, we must fix it before we release. These +checks are implemented in `scripts/maint/lintChanges.py`.

When we go to make a release, we will concatenate all the entries in changes to make a draft changelog, and clear the directory. We'll then edit the draft changelog into a nice readable format.

-To make sure that stuff is in the right format, we use -scripts/maint/lintChanges.py to check the changes files for -(superficial) validity. You can run this script on your own changes -files! - What needs a changes file?

* A not-exhaustive list: Anything that might change user-visible