From d515b0f4ba5797ab763c43b5ded0a7a5712eae20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 17:43:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] changes file for ticket 31176

---
 changes/ticket31176 | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changes/ticket31176

diff --git a/changes/ticket31176 b/changes/ticket31176
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5fcdeab3af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/ticket31176
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+  o Major features (developer tools):
+    - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker tool
+      to keep track of the layering violations that we have not yet fixed.
+      We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's modularity.
+      Closes ticket 31176.