Bug #14886: ChangeLog section is obsolete

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• Backport: 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN

[znz (Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA)]

ChangeLog section in doc/contributing.rdoc is not useful now.
But I think some parts are useful for commit log.
For example: issue relationship.

[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• File contributing-rm-changelog.patch contributing-rm-changelog.patch added

I agree, we should fix this. The attached patch is my attempt to do so, removing ChangeLog-specific parts and keeping other parts as a guide for commit messages.

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset git|a4b5aaa9a7225693168e43455de2e10c3721b789.

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Remove Changelog section from doc/contributing.rdoc [ci skip]

Replace it with a section on commit message formatting. Also,
move the section on rebasing to the bottom, since that only
applies to committers and not most contributors.

Fixes [Bug #14886]