[issue11795] Better core dev guidelines for committing submitted patches

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> added the comment:

Note that the older tradition was to *not* mention the contributor in NEWS (NEWS was just technical notes), but to mention them in the checkin message (and What's New, for things that make the What's New cut).  However, since we can't edit checkin messages post-commit like we could with SVN, I suppose this new convention (that some people have been following since well before the switchover...) is more practical.

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