From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Your commit 7409a79 Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:58:35 +0200 Message-ID: <83sigqxhec.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83h9x917il.fsf@gnu.org> <85k324h0hg.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83k324yv44.fsf@gnu.org> <85tx17dqzy.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <54850587.4080006@cs.ucla.edu> <877fy2kh7j.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418054385 16382 80.91.229.3 (8 Dec 2014 15:59:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 15:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 16:59:35 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy0ik-0004sc-LK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 16:59:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34683 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy0ik-0006q9-AH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:59:34 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38357) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy0i2-0006im-Om for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:58:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy0hx-000774-PZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:58:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout28.012.net.il ([80.179.55.184]:55523) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xy0hx-00076V-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 10:58:45 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout28.012.net.il by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NG900100TJTJF00@mtaout28.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:56:22 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout28.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NG900M4RTLXEK40@mtaout28.012.net.il>; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:56:21 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <877fy2kh7j.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.184 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179403 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 11:28:48 +0900 > Cc: Stephen Leake , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > I would do the other work that the rename is intended to support on a > branch, do the rename, and then a merge commit with a commit message > like > > Clarify CONTRIBUTE and make it prominently visible. > > Step one in a revolutionary program to attract more contributors > to Emacs. > > - Move from etc/ to top level for visibility in ls and git-browser. > - Specify format of commit log summaries. > - etc, etc > > Then the rename commit can be trivial with a simple statement of fact: Exactly my thoughts. > Rename etc/CONTRIBUTE to ./CONTRIBUTE. > > Of course this style of committing and logs would be an insuperable > barrier to contribution if it were made policy. ;-) If people object to having instructions in CONTRIBUTE that might be not 100% necessary, I wonder if we can put recommendations in CONTRIBUTE without making it a policy that is enforced. Something like "we recommend ...".