doc/HACKING is out of date
(as of commit e7134c2375f3c577ab7dcc20c74c5773d1a5f37d)
Line 43 states that the maint-0.2.1 branch is currently ‘actively developed’. It should not.
Line 54 uses “bug 9999” as a dummy bug number. That ticket will be opened this year.
Line 96 refers to “https://buildbot.vidalia-project.net/one_line_per_build”. I don't believe that that URL is still valid.
The Doxygen formatting details (starting after line 329) are frequently ignored in practice. That's probably a good thing, because fewer developers use Doxygen than jump around in the source using TAGS files and grep and read the comments directly. If you don't agree that abandoning Doxygen is a good idea, make check-spaces
should detect and complain about at least gross problems (e.g. characters that should be escaped left unescaped).
The HACKING file does not mention using a TAGS file. (I put “find src/ -name '*.[hc]' |etags -
” in my Git post-checkout hook.)