Hi Robert, > Having the list of commits in the merge commit message proposed by GitHub helps there.
Can you elaborate on this? How exactly does it help? You can always view the commits on the original PR. Beyond that, I actually don't see these commit messages being added currently when I look at recently merged PRs like 1 <https://github.com/apache/polaris/commit/a0e31b0584437602f30a97ed5fc110c50802d9c1> or 2 <https://github.com/apache/polaris/commit/a0e31b0584437602f30a97ed5fc110c50802d9c1>. They are indeed there by default right now, as you can see in this recent commit <https://github.com/apache/polaris/commit/145ad3e2715ccb4630e6537de3c077561c86a129> which includes each commit's message. But my reading of your linked comments suggests that committers are meant to *change* the default commit message. Ajantha's proposed change would make the default commit message more closely resemble what you suggest. In fact, for those two linked PRs, it looks like the default commit message would have been exactly the same as what ultimately got merged. --EM On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM Jean-Baptiste Onofré <j...@nanthrax.net> wrote: > Hi > > From technical standpoint, the commit template can be updated via asf.yaml. > It’s a change we did on the parser a few months ago. > > Regards > JB > > Le mer. 9 juil. 2025 à 04:30, Ajantha Bhat <ajanthab...@gmail.com> a > écrit : > > > Hi all, > > While adding the recommendation to working with the PR on site docs, > > we have opened an issue https://github.com/apache/polaris/issues/1656 to > > update the settings. > > > > I have discussed with ASF Infra and they mentioned, we can update by > > ourselves. > > Hence, I opened a PR for the same: > > https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/2016 > > > > But it looks like we don't have consensus on this change (based on the > > comment on the PR). Hence this discussion. > > > > I personally think it is good to have these settings as default as the > > committer work will be reduced if the PR title and description is proper. > > I don't see the drawbacks of this approach yet. Please feel free to > mention > > your opinion on this. > > > > - Ajantha > > >
