Mercurial > emacs
changeset 102558:47e37f294247
Mention some ChangeLog issues.
| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:29:40 +0000 |
| parents | efe8d58403df |
| children | c1fc6e52d047 |
| files | admin/notes/bugtracker |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/admin/notes/bugtracker Sat Mar 14 20:25:06 2009 +0000 +++ b/admin/notes/bugtracker Sat Mar 14 20:29:40 2009 +0000 @@ -278,6 +278,26 @@ discards valid mails. Adding a subject (pointless in control messages) may help. +** ChangeLog issues + +*** When you fix a bug, it can be helpful to put the bug number in the +ChangeLog entry, for example: + + * foo.el (foofunc): Fix the `foo' case. (Bug#123) + +Then the relevant bug can be found for easy reference. If it's an +obvious fix (e.g. a typo), there's no need to clutter the log with the +bug number. + +Similarly, when you close a bug, it can be helpful to include the +relevant ChangeLog entry in the message to the bug tracker, so people +can see eaxctly what the fix was. + +*** bug-reference-mode + +Activate `bug-reference-mode' in ChangeLogs to get clickable links to +the bug web-pages. + ** Gnus-specific voodoo *** Put point on a bug-number and try: M-x gnus-read-ephemeral-emacs-bug-group