From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-08-27T02:43:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby ChangeLog format

Hi,

In message "Re: Ruby ChangeLog format"
    on 03/08/27, why the lucky stiff <ruby-core@whytheluckystiff.net> writes:

|Incidentally, I'd really like to document some of the CVS rules I've
|encountered.  Such as: a few of the coding conventions, using Japanese
|time in log entries, when to update version.h, and such.

Use Emacs. ;-)

Seriously, here's the rules we use; I hope it's not too difficult for
you.

  * the entry header format is

      Tue Aug 26 23:53:23 2003  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>

    Timezone is in Japanese Standard Time (GMT+900).

  * each entry start with "*" following TAB, then file name, function
    name in parentheses.  the continued lines are prefixed by TAB and
    two spaces.

  * entries should be in English. pseudo English sometimes.
    commiters are free to fix typo.

  * in case you fixed bugs reported by a list mail, put a mail number
    tag in the entry, for example [ruby-talk:80214].

  * you don't need to update version.h;  eban or matz will update it.

If you use Emacs, change-log-mode will do the first two automatically.

							matz.