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Re:Keep a Changelog by crististm on Monday February 16, 2015 @07:25AM (#9056563)
I have considered lately the equivalent of the "engineer's notebook" but I am not aware of such files in most notable software projects. It is supposed to record and communicate project challenges, dead-ends, attempts etc. to other contributors (probably like HISTORY?)

Does it make any sense to do that in a project?

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Re:Keep a Changelog by teddyh on Monday February 16, 2015 @07:49AM (#9056647)
The file most likely to contain such information would probably be the HACKING file, which I’ve seen many projects use to contain an introduction for developers of the software itself (as opposed to building instructions or the user’s manual).
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