On 04/06/2015 06:49 AM, Artur Malabarba wrote:
>
> > Weekly reminder: commit messages should contain (almost) the same 
> text as what's added to the ChangeLog files.
>
> Sorry about that.
> Hopefully, this reminder will no longer be necessary starting 
> tomorrow. :-)
>

I hope so too, but I'm afraid that some sort of reminder will still be 
needed, as not every project uses ChangeLog format for commit messages 
as our guidelines suggest, and many people aren't used to the suggested 
style.

This is not a new problem: many ChangeLog entries don't follow our 
guidelines and someone else tidies them up later, which is a pain for 
the "someone else".  If we can encourage more-standard commit messages, 
we can ease the maintenance burden.

Attached is a brief commentary on recently-added commit messages, which 
I've turned into ChangeLog format using the automated procedure that 
should be in place shortly, along with some commentary about possible 
improvements to these commit messages.