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Document that non-spec changes should get an 'internal' changelog entry #1342

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@anoadragon453 anoadragon453 commented Nov 15, 2022

Updates the contributing documentation to mention that we now support "internal" changelog entries after #1194.

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``changelogs/``. For instance, news fragments for the client-server API are stored
under ``changelogs/client_server/newsfragments``. Any changes to the repository that do
not affect the spec content itself, such as changes to the build script, formatting, CSS,
etc. should be documented under ``changelogs/internal/newsfragments``.

To create a changelog entry, create a file named in the format ``prNumber.type`` in
the ``newsfragments`` directory. The ``type`` can be one of the following:
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Do we want to provide any additional guidance on what types are generally used for internal changes? So far I only see "clarification" and "feature".

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Hopefully it should be relatively self-explanatory, although I'm surprised there aren't more bugfixes.

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``changelogs/``. For instance, news fragments for the client-server API are stored
under ``changelogs/client_server/newsfragments``. Any changes to the repository that do
not affect the spec content itself, such as changes to the build script, formatting, CSS,
etc. should be documented under ``changelogs/internal/newsfragments``.

To create a changelog entry, create a file named in the format ``prNumber.type`` in
the ``newsfragments`` directory. The ``type`` can be one of the following:
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Hopefully it should be relatively self-explanatory, although I'm surprised there aren't more bugfixes.

@anoadragon453 anoadragon453 merged commit b5005e6 into main Nov 16, 2022
@anoadragon453 anoadragon453 deleted the anoa/internal_changelog_doc branch November 16, 2022 13:44
clokep pushed a commit to clokep/matrix-spec that referenced this pull request May 3, 2023
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