;doc: move the project changelog to doc/, for easy consistent paths

Leave a top-level CHANGES placeholder for discoverability.

CHANGES

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+General project changes are in doc/CHANGES.md.
+Package-specific changes are in hledger*/CHANGES.md.

Shake.hs

@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ main = do
         pkgdirs = packages
         pkgandprojdirs = "" : pkgdirs
         cabalfiles = [p </> p <.> "cabal" | p <- packages]
-        changelogs = map (</> "CHANGES.md") pkgandprojdirs
+        changelogs = map (</> "CHANGES.md") pkgdirs ++ ["doc/CHANGES.md"]
         packagemanversionm4s = [p </> ".version.m4" | p <- packages]
         packagemandatem4s = [p </> ".date.m4" | p <- packages]
 

doc/CHANGELOGS.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Before release, and preferably daily/weekly as well:
 - `./Shake changelogs`
 - edit the new changelog items
     - open the five changelogs
-      - in emacs: `M-x dired-find`, `-name CHANGES.md`, `(`, split into 5 columns, open each one, narrow from last release heading to top
+      - in emacs: `C-x d */CHANGES.md`, `(`, split into 5 columns, open each one, narrow from last release heading to top
     - in each changelog
       - paste section headings from top comment if needed
       - process new items, from top-most section heading upward

doc/RELEASING.md

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ It should be improved each time it is used.
   - embedded asciinema demos (hledger/embeddedfiles/*.cast)
   - shell completions (hledger/shell-completion/hledger-completion.bash)  
         `just completions`, commit any changes
-  - changelogs x 5 (**/CHANGES.md)  
+  - changelogs x 5 (*/CHANGES.md)  
         `just changelogs [-c]`  
         add notable changes from site, finance repos to project changelog (major release only)  
         add issue links with `md-issue-refs`, uniquify