Hi Folks, I feel like commits have definitely improved in the past year, it's become much more common for a summary of how a problem was fixed to be in commit messages, yay for us!
Now that I'm back from my (very refreshing) three week vacation, I'm reading through hundreds of commit messages instead of the more normal few at a time, and my experience has prompted me to make a request. It would be really nice if I didn't have to click on bug URLs over and over again to figure out what general problem was solved by a commit. I'd like to ask people to include a sentence about what the bug being solved is, in addition to including a bug number and a summary of the solution, when committing. I acknowledge this is extra effort, and potentially duplication of the title available elsewhere, but I think it's important to have titles available directly in the email. There's a reason we tend to use one sentence titles and one paragraph summaries, having a useful title and summary all in one place is the most digestible way to receive information, and it saves the reader time. I think this an example of the kind of one-to-many communication where there's a big collective reward for having a culture where individuals put in the extra effort. Thanks! Jeffrey _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "chandler-dev" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-dev
