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doc: Update our requirements for changes file

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Closes tpo/core/team#3.

Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
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@ -87,6 +87,18 @@ months and expect it to merge cleanly. Try to merge pieces early and often.
## How we log changes
Before diving in the details on how to write a changes file, note that we do
NOT require a changes file for:
* Any change to a file that is not distributed in the tarball. This
includes:
- Any change to our CI configuration that does not affect the distributed
source.
- Any change to developer-only tools, unless those tools are distributed
in the tarball.
* Non-functional code movement.
* Identifier re-namings, comment edits, spelling fixes, and so on.
When you do a commit that needs a ChangeLog entry, add a new file to
the `changes` toplevel subdirectory. It should have the format of a
one-entry changelog section from the current ChangeLog file, as in