From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Your commit 7409a79 Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 02:08:45 -0600 Message-ID: <858uih9rea.fsf@stephe-leake.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> <878uihbq7q.fsf@zigzag.favinet> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418112589 19001 80.91.229.3 (9 Dec 2014 08:09:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 08:09:49 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 09:09:42 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 1XyFrM-0000qq-J3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 09:09:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38317 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyFrM-00072b-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 03:09:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41153) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyFrE-000729-BW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 03:09:26 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyFr8-0006wi-6L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 03:09:20 -0500 Original-Received: from gproxy2-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([69.89.18.3]:51604) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XyFr7-0006wK-WD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 03:09:14 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 11372 invoked by uid 0); 9 Dec 2014 08:09:08 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO CMOut01) (10.0.90.82) by gproxy2.mail.unifiedlayer.com with SMTP; 9 Dec 2014 08:09:08 -0000 Original-Received: from host114.hostmonster.com ([74.220.207.114]) by CMOut01 with id RL931p0022UdiVW01L96EQ; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 01:09:08 -0700 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=dfgTgxne c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:117 a=CQdxDb2CKd3SRg4I0/XZPQ==:17 a=DsvgjBjRAAAA:8 a=f5113yIGAAAA:8 a=fNEgcOh0sVsA:10 a=9i_RQKNPAAAA:8 a=hEr_IkYJT6EA:10 a=jrwKn-8xaegA:10 a=A92cGCtB03wA:10 a=mDV3o1hIAAAA:8 a=hX19vnlj4xLf1oHzdSwA:9 Original-Received: from [70.94.38.149] (port=55290 helo=TAKVER) by host114.hostmonster.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1XyFqw-0000I8-Mp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2014 01:09:02 -0700 In-Reply-To: <878uihbq7q.fsf@zigzag.favinet> (Thien-Thi Nguyen's message of "Tue, 09 Dec 2014 01:51:21 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.94 (windows-nt) X-Identified-User: {2442:host114.hostmonster.com:stephele:stephe-leake.org} {sentby:smtp auth 70.94.38.149 authed with stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org} X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 69.89.18.3 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:179532 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > () Stephen Leake > () Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:27:13 -0600 > > Because I have been trying for 30 years to make myself write > caps and periods in commit messages, and it just doesn't work > for me (mostly because I just don't see it as important). > Hence the barrier to contributing. > > Maybe if you take a step sideways and consider the role of the > initial caps and period, it will make things easier to not only > accept, but formulate exceptions. This is my roundabout way of > pushing my own personal axioms re TITLE: > > - A sentence begins w/ a capitalized word and ends with period. > - Phrases that are not sentences do not merit this. > - A change can be described by a sentence or a phrase. Yes. > The last axiom is the escape hatch that allows TITLEs such as: Ah, but why limit the exception to the TITLE? The rest of the commit entry is also describing changes. That's my problem :). "this will be here for posterity" was _not_ true for the NASA projects I worked on; it is true for Emacs. I think that will be sufficient motivation for me. -- -- Stephe