From: Joe Orton Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:19:26 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Further refine CHANGES description, to prod Claude into X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=de066b78e6ff2d5413c0d9d8288df5ea520d42a6;p=thirdparty%2Fapache%2Fhttpd.git Further refine CHANGES description, to prod Claude into producing more useful output. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk@1936251 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68 --- diff --git a/README.CHANGES b/README.CHANGES index 9b1c972b22..bb6de8747a 100644 --- a/README.CHANGES +++ b/README.CHANGES @@ -22,11 +22,16 @@ with the .txt suffix, using the following template: Changes to server/*.[ch] use a "core:" prefix rather than "mod_foo:". The description should be as concise as possible, a maximum of three -lines but ideally one or two. The credit for the change goes to the -original patch author(s) and will usually match the "Submitted by: " -tag in the commit message. For current committers, use only the -name and not the e-mail address in the credit. Replace "@" in any -e-mail addresses with a space to prevent address harvesting. +lines but ideally one or two; describe the user-visible effect of the +change rather than simply describing how the code was fixed. New +modules or config directives do NOT need to be explained in detail, +that is covered in the documentation. + +The credit for the change goes to the original patch author(s) and +will usually match the "Submitted by: " tag in the commit message. For +current committers, use only the name and not the e-mail address in +the credit. Replace "@" in any e-mail addresses with a space to +prevent address harvesting. Use a Bugzilla bug number in the PR reference.