Apache requirements for commit message for contributed code

[Craig L Russell]

Recently, the Apache board reasserted the requirement that the commit message for code contributed by other than the committer must include attribution of the contributor. It's necessary, but not sufficient for the commit message to include the JIRA.

Please see http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#applying-patches



commit -m "PROJECT-987 fix for NPE in constructor"

This is ok:



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Craig Russell
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The rationale is to make sure that we can determine provenance for code without having to go beyond the svn repository. For example, if Joe Schmo (not an Apache committer) submitted a patch, this is not ok: commit -m "PROJECT-987 fix for NPE in constructor, contributed by Joe Schmo"

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