From: Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
To: "Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer" <taylanbayirli@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-devel <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Elisp branch ready for merge (??)
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 09:15:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ziu3y5v5.fsf@dustycloud.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k2l727jq.fsf@T420.taylan>
Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer writes:
> Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>
>> Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer writes:
>>
>>> Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> Well, I didn't think I'd have time to do this (and in a sense I didn't)
>>>> but:
>>>> https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/guile/tree/merge-bipt-elisp-wip
>>>>
>>>> I've rebased the whole branch against git master and added ChangeLog
>>>> style entries. "make check" is passing. It seems to me that it's ready
>>>> for merge. I did the best I could on the ChangeLog additions, both with
>>>> my limited ChangeLog experience and from my limited Guile internals
>>>> experience. So, corrections welcome, but otherwise...
>>>
>>> Exciting!
>>>
>>> Small remark: the "title" line of the commit messages should be complete
>>> sentences.
>>
>> Yes, though I didn't write them. I also don't know in each case what a
>> complete sentence would be. I did my best job by filling in the
>> ChangeLog style part. Often times my figuring out the ChangeLog stuff
>> was based on some sentence fragment.
>>
>> Changing the one part that is the original author's writing to something
>> different... I can do it by attempting to guess, but I'm worried about
>> removing that context.
>>
>> One thing I could do is leave in the description: "Original title: foo"
>>
>> What do you think of that?
>
> In some cases it seems the title is already a sentence, just lacking
> capitalization and punctuation. (It seems Guile doesn't have a strict
> rule about the punctuation though.)
>
> In other cases it seems like titles that should be "Add foobar" are
> shortened to just "foobar", e.g.:
>
> - guile-backtrace function
> - eval-when
> - fset macro
> - defsubst
> - compiler macros
> - elisp @@ macro
>
> All in all it looks like most titles should be straightforward to fix.
> Fixing any would be better than fixing none IMO.
You are probably right.
> And I'd say mentioning the original title is unnecessary for the
> obvious ones, though we should get Robin's sanctioning for what we do.
> Is Robin perhaps available for some basic feedback?
I haven't heard from them, but if they chose to reach out it would be of
course most welcome!
- Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-12 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-06 8:32 Guile & Emacs chat at emacs hackathon/bug-crush SF Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-06 16:53 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-07 1:01 ` What's needed to get elisp updates into Guile master? Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-07 10:14 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-07 18:06 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-07 19:12 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-08 1:23 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-09 9:07 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-03-09 17:22 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-11 1:51 ` Elisp branch ready for merge (??) Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-11 9:44 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-03-11 16:33 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-12 12:40 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2016-03-12 17:15 ` Christopher Allan Webber [this message]
2016-03-11 13:14 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-11 16:30 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-11 17:56 ` Mathieu Lirzin
2016-03-25 19:06 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2016-03-16 11:55 ` Guile & Emacs chat at emacs hackathon/bug-crush SF Mikael Djurfeldt
2016-03-16 18:58 ` Stefan Husmann
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