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

[Simon Schampijer]

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 ;)

Cheers,
    Simon