Yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered that Sven took the time to fix the gimp-help-2 ChangeLog and convert many incorrectly formatted entries to the standard format. But soon after that, I saw that Axel added a new entry that was again not formatted correctly.

In order to have a clean ChangeLog, I would like to recommend that everybody uses the standard format as much as possible. This means: - All lines that are indented start with exactly one tab. No spaces! - All entries are in UTF-8 (not iso-8859-1 or any other encoding)

The format of each entry looks like this: - The first line of an entry always starts with the date in the standard format YYYY-MM-DD, followed by two spaces, your name, two spaces and then your e-mail address. - There is one empty line (not more, not less) between the first line and the list of affected files.
- Each file is listed as follows: one tab (again, no spaces!), one star (*), one space, then the name of the file. The description of the changes can follow. If that description takes more than one line, then it can be broken into multiple lines, each one starting with one tab.
- There is one empty line (not more, not less) between the last line of the list of affected files and the next ChangeLog entry. Some editors can create ChangeLog entries automatically so that you do not have to worry about the formatting. One example is Emacs, but there are probably other tools that can do it as well.

Some XML files contain a small history section as a comment. Using and updating this comment is optional. But if you add an entry there, please try to use the standard date format YYYY-MM-DD. Do not use only two digits for the year and do not use "/" as a separator. For more information about this standard date format, see: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

-Rapha?l