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From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Commit netiquette.
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:22:29 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxz613cq.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pr42y2le.fsf@telefonica.net>

Óscar Fuentes writes:

 > On this respect I find changelog entries as a lame way of documenting
 > changes.

Some senior developers are used to this method, and they are already
familiar with the code base.  It works well enough, regardless of your
opinion.

The real issues you should be pointing to are (1) accurate commit log
messages are an excellent way to learn about the code base, so the
Emacs infrastructure (edit-log, vc) should try to ensure that commit
logs are as detailed as ChangeLog entries, and (2) ChangeLogs are a
minor but very persistent annoyance (especially to people doing
integrative work, like the maintainers) because they *very* frequently
require special handling, such as merge conflict resolution.

(1) should be easy enough to achieve, but (2) will require balancing
the interests of those used to ChangeLogs with their deficiencies.




  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-19  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-17 23:44 Commit netiquette Óscar Fuentes
2010-02-18  0:27 ` Glenn Morris
2010-02-18  0:51   ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-02-18  5:35     ` Glenn Morris
2010-02-18  7:13       ` Chong Yidong
2010-02-18 15:11         ` Mark A. Hershberger
2010-02-18 14:45 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-02-18 15:12   ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-02-18 16:14     ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-19  3:42       ` David Reitter
2010-02-19  5:32         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-19  8:17       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-02-19 18:19         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-20 11:02           ` Chong Yidong
2010-02-20 11:06         ` Chong Yidong
2010-02-23 19:25           ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-02-19  8:17     ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-02-19  8:39       ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-02-20 12:37         ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-02-20 14:13           ` Miles Bader
2010-02-20 14:23             ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-22  2:17               ` Miles Bader
2010-02-22  4:14                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-23 16:37                   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-02-23 19:25               ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-02-20 18:55           ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-02-23 19:25             ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2010-02-23 20:28               ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-02-23 22:09                 ` David Kastrup
2010-02-23 22:57                   ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-02-18 15:40   ` Óscar Fuentes
2010-02-19  0:22     ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2010-02-19  7:53   ` Miles Bader
2010-02-18 15:15 ` Mark A. Hershberger

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