Re: Template for commit messages

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinnaka(at)iki(dot)fi>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Tomas Vondra <tomas(dot)vondra(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Template for commit messages
Date: 2016-02-01 01:04:58
Message-ID: 56AEAF3A.4000105@commandprompt.com
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On 01/31/2016 04:34 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 2:44 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> On 01/29/2016 03:05 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>> One of the offers is to credit them (I'm not exactly clear
>>> on what is the group to benefit from this, but the phrasing used in the
>>> meeting was "contributors to the release") by having a section somewhere
>>> in the release notes with a list of their names.
>>
>>
>> I can see this as being a nice thing but knowing that someone is a
>> contributor isn't hard. There is a contributor list on the website and it is
>> obvious from mail lists, archives and simple searches who is actually
>> participating.
>
> This page would need a refresh IMO. I think it has not been touched
> for the last couple of years.

No doubt but if we can't bother to keep that refreshed what makes us
think that a structured format in commit messages that magically
(through a lot of hard work and extra parsing anyway) is going to be any
more accurate?

Sincerely,

JD

>

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