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: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:02:03 +0200 Message-ID: <834mt3v0x0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83h9x917il.fsf@gnu.org> <85k324h0hg.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83k324yv44.fsf@gnu.org> <85tx17dqzy.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83y4qixhq8.fsf@gnu.org> <85r3w9bu3y.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83mw6wwyl8.fsf@gnu.org> <85388n97ow.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <83iohjv5r8.fsf@gnu.org> <851to777y4.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418234563 14783 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2014 18:02:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:02:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Leake Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 10 19:02:38 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 1Xylat-0005gd-Ul for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:02:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47152 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xylat-0006up-7u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:02:35 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58960) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XylaY-0006sW-28 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:02:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XylaS-0000Wp-Lq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:02:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:49733) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XylaS-0000WR-Ei for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 13:02:08 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NGD00600OLDVI00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:59:45 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NGD006DFONLQ100@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 19:59:45 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <851to777y4.fsf@stephe-leake.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 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:179675 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Leake > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:04:03 -0600 > > >> > In any case, the asterisks are optional, IMO. > >> > >> http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Log-Concepts.html > >> last paragraph says asterisks are part of the required Changelog style. > > > > I wasn't talking about Changelog's, I was talking about commit log > > messages. > > CONTRIBUTE says: > > When using git, commit messages should use ChangeLog format, with a That's obviously inaccurate. > >> > You need to put the right information there, and make it in correct > >> > English, and that's about all that's really required. Beyond that, > >> > it's all about your perfectionism. > >> > >> That is not the impression I get from the mentoring comments on this > >> list, and it is not what it says in CONTRIBUTE. > > > > You need to read just what the text says, as you yourself admitted. > > I don't follow; what is your point? That your impression doesn't have any basis, the text of mentoring comments as written and posted does not imply anything to that effect.