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 18:17:31 +0200 Message-ID: <83iohjv5r8.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> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418228282 838 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2014 16:18:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:18:02 +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 17:17:56 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 1XyjxZ-0004Ta-LF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:17:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46541 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyjxZ-0002qM-5o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:17:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52103) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyjxP-0002hW-Ih for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:17:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyjxK-0001BP-7S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:17:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:64644) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyjxJ-00019B-Uk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:17:38 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NGD00H00JR04Z00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:17:36 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NGD00H8TJXA1930@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:17:36 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <85388n97ow.fsf@stephe-leake.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:179665 Archived-At: > From: Stephen Leake > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:26:39 -0600 > > > Asterisks come from add-change-log-entry and friends, so it will not > > be there if you just write free text, like I did above. > > > 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. > > 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.