Re: Commit changelogs

Hi Henrik,

At 13.33 07/08/2006, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

>mån 2006-08-07 klockan 13:04 +0200 skrev Guido Serassio:
>
> > Yes, I also prefer a solution without any special markup, but this
> > solution warrants that the commiter must know what is doing, and it's
> > a not so big effort like the old 2.5 patch management .... :-)
>
>What about the following simple rule
>
>First paragraph must be >20 characers and <120.
>
>If it doesnt start with Bug then it must additionally be >40 characers
>long
>
>and it must be followed by a second paragraph further explaining the
>impact of the change.
>
>i.e. a title and a description is required, separated.

This was my first idea, but the minimum title
length could be a problem, just some changelog examples:

Memory leak on pinned connections
Documentation update
Cosmetic linewrap layout fixes
Forgot some small changes
Preparing 2.6.STABLE2
Ran indent

What about an optional tag allowing a minimum length override ?

Regards

Guido

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Received on Mon Aug 07 2006 - 06:44:22 MDT