> > > I will, in fact, say it: it is good practice to supply a meaningful log > > message even for the smallest of edits. >
I agree with this completely. However... > Just do a search and see the number of commit messages that remain at > 'Editing wiki page thru web interface' and you will see the problem. > Its very unhelpul without going into the diff page to see what wiki > page was changed. The default message is a very poor choice and many > developers just wont change that message if the edit is minor. Human > nature. Give us better defaults. Or give us the code to change it to > a better default ;D > ... I often find I miss editing the field and just click on 'save' (probably something to do with the fact that conceptually seeing the wiki as part of the VCS is still 'new' to me). I am always evangelising about providing good commit messages but editing them post hoc is a bit of a pain. So, how about when you click 'save', there is a *further* page which then prompts for the commit message? This would -- for me at least! -- make it a lot easier to remember to enter a sensible message. The second page could also show the diff so it could be summarised properly. As jagernot says, users could specify their own default message. I was also wondering if there could be a length restriction that project owners could enforce, especially requiring a non-empty log message. What do you think, Nathan? Others? :Darren. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :Darren :Pearce-Lazard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Shop & Donate: http://buy.at/campuskids *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] Postdoctoral Researcher London Knowledge Lab, University of London ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] Visiting Research Fellow Informatics, University of Sussex http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/darrenp/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenpearce ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
