On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 12:16 AM, Thanh Ha <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Sam Hague <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> What would the workflow be with the new jira and gerrit integration? And
>> what best-practices should be used when creating commit messages?
>>
>> Typically users have included the bug-id in the beginning of the summary
>> line. That eats up some of the 50 characters allowed so it isn't good.
>> Should we encourage something more like what openstack is doing in [1]
>> where they suggest adding lines in the message themselves like "Closes-Bug:
>> #####", "Partial-Bug: #####"? This seems better and gives more space to the
>> commit-message summary line.
>>
>> Thanks, Sam
>>
>> [1] https://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#deve
>> lopment-workflow
>>
>>
> I've always recommend folks treat the footer block in a commit message as
> metadata. Things like bug IDs should go there so it will look like:
>
> Summary line
>
> Message body
> continued body lines...
>
> NETVIRT-1234
> Change-Id: ....
> Signed-off-by: ....
>
>
> You can add words in front of the Jira ID too like "closes:" "Issue:",
> "fixes", etc... I'm not sure if the Jira integration supports any specific
> words but I know it picks up at least he Jira ID.
>

I like the "Issue: NETVIRT-1234" syntax (finding an upper case "-ID" ugly,
and "Issue-Id" superfluous)... I'll start using that in footers in future
work.

Regards,
> Thanh
>
>
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