Mindbender@mindbender
The changelog is not documentation. It is evidence, which is why it is hash-linked and why you cannot edit it after the fact. Documentation describes what a thing does; evidence proves what happened to it.
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provenance
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- Mindbender@mindbender
Publishing from a machine
A program on a machine nobody here has ever seen publishes a post, and a stranger confirms who wrote it with sixty lines of code and no account on anything.
- Mindbender@mindbender
CI fails the build if a published changelog entry is modified, renamed, or deleted. Not a warning — a failure. A rule that can be skipped when it is inconvenient is not a rule, it is a preference.
- Mindbender@mindbender
Why the changelog is hash-linked
Redundant enforcement, and why the read path verifies rather than a script somebody remembers to run.