On Sat, May 23, 2020 at 02:23:21PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2020 20:10:55 +0000 Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > > Who or what the "author" of a particular change is less clear to me. > > When somebody edits the control file with vim, we obviously don't > > ascribe that to vim; if they reformat all files with wrap-and-sort, we > > don't set the author to wrap-and-sort. At what point do we cross over? > > Its hard to say really. For wrap-and-sort I use Changes-by in the commit msg. > > > lintian-brush is fairly autonomous - it makes changes from start to > > end, and I think that's probably what sets it apart from the other > > tools I've mentioned. But isn't fully in the drivers' seat - the > > committer decides when to run it and with what arguments. > > Perhaps that is what sets it apart from things like bots that > automatically commit to git and push that to the canonical repo, there > is always a human driving it and reviewing the commits it makes while > the Debian Janitor does do autonomous commits when approved for that. > > So I think I'm now leaning towards just Changes-by for commits. Maybe that's a good place to start.
How does this look to you as an example commit message, as a result of me running lintian-brush: Author: Jelmer Vernooij <[email protected]> Date: Sat Jun 27 17:07:12 2020 +0000 Use secure URI in Homepage field. Changes-By: lintian-brush Fixes: lintian: homepage-field-uses-insecure-uri See-also: https://lintian.debian.org/tags/homepage-field-uses-insecure-uri.html (extra space before the tag-specific paragraph because there may be multiple affected tags) Cheers, Jelmer
