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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] gnu: linux-libre-beagle-bone-black: Remove kernel variant.
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 23:13:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r38320dz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160926180017.GA25959@jocasta.intra> (John Darrington's message of "Mon, 26 Sep 2016 20:00:17 +0200")

John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> I don't object to a having a common style.   I just wish that the information
> that we put in our messages a) gave the rationale for the change; and b) didn't
> merely repeat information which git show could have told me.

The rationale should really go to comments in the code:
<https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Change-Log-Concepts.html>.

A notable exception is reverts or removals: for these, I think it’s best
to have an explanation in the code, so that someone browsing the history
can understand why that happened.

Ludo’.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-28 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-26 10:34 [PATCH 1/6] gnu: Add picocom David Craven
2016-09-26 10:34 ` [PATCH 2/6] gnu: %default-extra-linux-options: Remove redundant options David Craven
2016-09-29  8:40   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-29  8:53     ` David Craven
2016-09-29 10:33       ` David Craven
2016-09-29 12:35         ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-26 10:34 ` [PATCH 3/6] gnu: make-linux-libre: Install device tree files David Craven
2016-09-26 10:34 ` [PATCH 4/6] gnu: linux-libre-beagle-bone-black: Remove kernel variant David Craven
2016-09-26 13:23   ` John Darrington
2016-09-26 13:25     ` David Craven
2016-09-26 14:24     ` Vincent Legoll
2016-09-26 15:57       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-09-26 16:49       ` John Darrington
2016-09-26 16:57         ` Vincent Legoll
2016-09-26 17:31         ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-26 18:00           ` John Darrington
2016-09-26 18:06             ` David Craven
2016-09-26 18:22               ` Vincent Legoll
2016-09-26 18:28                 ` David Craven
2016-09-26 18:34               ` Leo Famulari
2016-09-28 21:13             ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2016-09-27 10:47         ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice
2016-09-28  0:14         ` Mark H Weaver
2016-09-28  6:16           ` John Darrington
2016-09-28 21:15           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-09-28 21:11       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-03 12:49         ` Vincent Legoll
2016-10-03 15:40           ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-10-04 14:32             ` Vincent Legoll
2016-09-26 10:34 ` [PATCH 5/6] gnu: make-u-boot-package: Add files-to-install argument David Craven
2016-09-26 12:39   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-09-26 13:38     ` David Craven
2016-09-26 13:41       ` David Craven
2016-09-26 14:04         ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-09-26 14:07           ` David Craven
2016-09-26 22:28             ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-10-07  8:19               ` David Craven
2016-10-07  9:26                 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-09-26 10:34 ` [PATCH 6/6] gnu: make-u-boot-package: Don't cross compile on arm David Craven
2016-09-26 17:24 ` [PATCH 1/6] gnu: Add picocom Leo Famulari

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