[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Sucrose 0.83.4 Development Release

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at sugarlabs.org
Fri Jan 23 07:25:35 EST 2009


On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 13:22, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de> wrote:
> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>>> Some thoughts:
>>>
>>>  - Because the commit message summary appears in the shortlog,
>>>   it should be kept below 74 characters to avoid ugly wrapping.
>>>
>>>  - Given the above, the word "Closes: " steals precious characters,
>>>   and is rather easy to deduce, therefore I'd opt it out.
>>>
>>>  - The leading dot at the end should not be included because
>>>   it looks super ugly in the subject of an email.
>>>
>>>  - To reduce clutter, I'd make the "SL" prefix implied, and leave
>>>   other prefixes such as OLPC#123 and RH#456 explicit.
>>>
>>> Do we have a wiki page where we can document these practices?
>>
>> Perhaps http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Git
>>
>> Marco
>
> Thanks for all your comments. I have put up
>
> http://sugarlabs.org/go/DevelopmentTeam/Git#Git_commit_message_guidelines
>
> reflecting the discussion. Nothing set in stone yet, feel free to
> comment or change in the next days - otherwise it will become mandatory ;)

Sounds excellent to me.

Regards,

Tomeu


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