refactor: remove requirement for redundant explicit changelog - #187
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Description
This change removes the requirement for explicit written changelogs in TIPs.
Motivation and Context
These changelogs are redundant since commit logs already exist, and a button has now been added to every page on the RFCs site to view the history directly. These changelogs created an extra task to remember, easily forgotten, which could give the wrong impression of a document's history.
Individual TIPs may elect to retain their changelog by the teams using them -- this only removes the requirement.
One potential drawback is that some history could be compressed for certain documents. For instance, before a TIP is merged, changes within a PR might be removed from the history as it's all bundled into one commit upon merge. However, in those cases, the changes would never have been in effect, and the pull request is still available for review if it is truly needed.
How Has This Been Tested?
Locally via render