Re: Template for commit messages

On 01/31/2016 04:34 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 2:44 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> On 01/29/2016 03:05 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>> One of the offers is to credit them (I'm not exactly clear
>>> on what is the group to benefit from this, but the phrasing used in the
>>> meeting was "contributors to the release") by having a section somewhere
>>> in the release notes with a list of their names.
>>
>>
>> I can see this as being a nice thing but knowing that someone is a
>> contributor isn't hard. There is a contributor list on the website and it is
>> obvious from mail lists, archives and simple searches who is actually
>> participating.
>
> This page would need a refresh IMO. I think it has not been touched
> for the last couple of years.

No doubt but if we can't bother to keep that refreshed what makes us 
think that a structured format in commit messages that magically 
(through a lot of hard work and extra parsing anyway) is going to be any 
more accurate?

Sincerely,

JD

>


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