On Thu, Dec 07, 2023 at 05:27:57PM -0500, Mark Phippard wrote: > I would also ask the project you are contributing to how they like to > receive contributions. Maybe they have it documented. If they receive > patches via mailing list like Apache projects do, then maybe you can > see that list for examples of other contributions and what they look > like.
I had actually tried looking for documentation and examples before posting to this mailing list, but unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find any. I ended up writing the documentation myself [1] now that my patch has been accepted. > The Subversion project had a commit message style the committers > care about so I always would review recent contributions as a reminder > ... of course you can also see those by running svn log to get a sense > of what commit message style is in the project. > > Mark I don’t think that they’re too picky. They made like 3 different typos in a 5 word log message [2], lol. [1]: <https://community.kde.org/Infrastructure/Subversion#Committing_to_the_repository> [2]: <https://websvn.kde.org/?revision=1666842&view=revision>
