From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Move to git, now that bzr is no longer a req. Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:20:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20140102095347.6834E381D0C@snark.thyrsus.com> <87fvp6bdd9.fsf_-_@ktab.red-bean.com> <8761q1ljny.fsf@gmail.com> <20140103175006.GE17261@thyrsus.com> <87iou0t72n.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388953232 6448 80.91.229.3 (5 Jan 2014 20:20:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 20:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bastien Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 05 21:20:40 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 1VzuBa-0001UY-8q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 21:20:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59305 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzuBZ-0004uC-RM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:20:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52370) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzuBT-0004sl-G8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:20:32 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzuBS-0005vx-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:20:31 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46150) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzuBR-0005vk-MK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:20:29 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VzuBQ-0001nM-VE; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 15:20:29 -0500 In-reply-to: <87iou0t72n.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (message from Bastien on Sat, 04 Jan 2014 10:44:16 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:167394 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] The question is whether we should edit them separately from the commit messages, or if we should produce them by (programmatically) extracting them from the commit messages. I think it is best for commit messages to be brief high-level summaries of the changes, and put the details only in ChangeLog. I think that these two forms of desription complement each other and that it is useful to have both available. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.