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Richard Stallman wrote:

>     PS. It's funny how people often switch to the past tense when writing
>     certain ChangeLog entries (eg: "rename", "move").
>
> I have always used "deleted" and "renamed", past tense.

I could have sworn there was a GNU or Emacs standard that said "write
changelog entries in the present tense", but now that I look I can't
find it. :(

All I can find is lispref/tips.texi saying to write doc-strings in the
present tense.