From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Fogel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Summarizing the purpose of a change. Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:20:25 -0600 Message-ID: <871vjq9e3a.fsf@red-bean.com> References: <87iqd4tkv4.fsf@red-bean.com> <20091121121950.GB2021@muc.de> <834ooooxp6.fsf@gnu.org> <87r5rqbihq.fsf@red-bean.com> Reply-To: Karl Fogel NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258942891 11206 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2009 02:21:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:21:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 23 03:21:23 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NCOYM-0005cE-9h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:21:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52887 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NCOYL-0004qg-NG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:21:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCOXe-0004WM-1Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:20:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NCOXZ-0004TU-It for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:20:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47980 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NCOXZ-0004TP-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:20:33 -0500 Original-Received: from sanpietro.red-bean.com ([66.146.206.141]:55805) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NCOXW-0006gW-Sr; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:20:31 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55362 helo=kfogel-work ident=kfogel) by sanpietro.red-bean.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NCOXS-0005yQ-ET; Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:20:26 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:53:02 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117537 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> So far, everyone who's chimed in has basically said "Yeah, I try to do >> this". But my question is more about making it policy, in the sense >> that of making it appropriate to follow up to change saying "How about a >> summary line for that?" > > We could try it. I think adding such a summary line can be > useful, indeed. We could try to make it more of a convention, indeed. > As somebody else pointed out, many VCS have special support for such > "summary line". > And after all, we already do the same for docstrings. > Let's try it for a while, Great. I guess the way to do that is to follow up when we see it not done and suggest it; if we're all happy with the results, we can document the convention (where is the right place for that?) -K