+1 on only title

Joris Van den Bossche <jorisvandenboss...@gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 31.
Jan. 2023, 09:54:

> I would personally prefer to use just "Pull request title" instead of
> "Pull request title and description".
>
> In my experience, including the description in the commit message (as
> we already do) more often gives noise to the output of `git log`, and
> you can always go from the commit to the PR to see the full context.
> In many cases, the description is quite verbose or contain long
> examples, or might be outdated (written when the PR was opened, but
> the PR might have changed along the review process), ...  Especially
> now that we have the github PR template with sections, they might
> become even more verbose.
>
> Personally, when opening a PR myself, I often leave the top post
> empty, to add a second comment with more explanation, exactly to avoid
> including that in the commit message if that doesn't seem useful to
> me.
>
> Anyway, I am certainly OK with both options if the general consensus
> is for "Pull request title and description" (and certainly if that
> enables actually using the merge button), but just stating my personal
> preference.
>
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 09:33, Raúl Cumplido <raulcumpl...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > +1
> > We already do it on the merge script and we have already changed it on
> the
> > `arrow-site` repo.
> >
> > El mar, 31 ene 2023 a las 9:13, Sutou Kouhei (<k...@clear-code.com>)
> > escribió:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We need to get consensus to change the default commit
> > > message for merge button:
> > >
> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-24133
> > >
> > > > Could you change the default commit message when merging a
> > > > PR to "Default to pull request title and description" on
> > > > the following Apache Arrow related repositories?
> > > >
> > > > * https://github.com/apache/arrow
> > > > * https://github.com/apache/arrow-adbc
> > > > * https://github.com/apache/arrow-cookbook
> > > > * https://github.com/apache/arrow-flight-sql-postgresql
> > > > * https://github.com/apache/arrow-julia
> > > > * https://github.com/apache/arrow-nanoarrow
> > > > * https://github.com/apache/arrow-testing
> > > >
> > > > See also:
> > > >
> > >
> https://github.blog/changelog/2022-08-23-new-options-for-controlling-the-default-commit-message-when-merging-a-pull-request/
> > > >
> > > > Related: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-24122
> > >
> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-24133#comment-17682383
> > >
> > > > Please provide a mailing list link to project consensus on this
> change.
> > >
> > >
> > > How about changing the default commit message for merge
> > > button to "Default to pull request title and description"
> > > like our dev/merge_arrow_pr.py in apache/arrow does?
> > >
> > > Note that this doesn't mean that we drop
> > > dev/merge_arrow_pr.py immediately. It's a separated
> > > discussion.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > --
> > > kou
> > >
>

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