Felipe Contreras wrote: > I think the commit message is fine, you don't. So YOU go ahead and > write the proper one. If you don't, all you are doing is being an > impediment to progress.
Hey Felipe. Let's get a few things straightened out first: - We all act in our selfish interests, and write code to scratch our personal itches. I don't write code or commit messages for anyone else, and neither should you. - However, we're not working in isolation. We have this giant mailing list where we all post our patches. It's like a bazaar where we compete against other patches for developer attention and potential reviewers. In other words, it's a free market, and we're selling our product: if it fails to sell, will you blame the market or your product? I write clear code and beautiful commit messages exactly for this reason: I'm fighting for attention! - We have to learn to interoperate with others' code and conventions, if we want to be part of the community. That doesn't mean that we drown out our individuality, but it means that a our patch series has to conform to some minimal, loose, and evolving standard. Now, you can argue that many of the existing conventions are outdated (I do it all the time), but it cannot change overnight. Your influence on the community will show up over an extended period of time. - We are not an old enterprise who blame breakages on a few individuals, and fire them. We're a community where all of us are equally responsible for all parts of the code. I am as responsible for the remote-hg code in master as you are, as I had every opportunity to review it when the patch series came up on the list. I might have chosen not to, but that doesn't relieve me of responsibility. - We don't practice division of labour. There are no managers, "testing people", "documentation people", "code-writing people", "commit-message writing people" etc. Everyone has to do some portion of all these tasks, although we try to keep the boring work/ technical debt to a minimum. Don't ask other people to write commit messages for your code. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
