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’.
next prev 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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