The Apache Subversion codified and wrote up details on how the project should write log messages. This style has been in effect for its decade+ duration and has worked out very well. You may find it helpful for the (new) OOo log message guidelines:
http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/conventions.html#log-messages Cheers, -g On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:34, Shane Curcuru <[email protected]> wrote: > Some projects do this by convention within the committers, using various > tags within the log message to denote bug number, reporter, original source, > test id, whatever. But it's up to each project to implement a policy for > this at the community level. > > There's a useful set of commentary on this kind of question here: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-3493 > > Note also that SVN allows committers to update log messages after the fact, > so you can always add new annotations later if needed. > > - Shane > > On 8/28/2011 4:03 PM, Pavel Janík wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I do not know if Apache has some proposed syntax of commit messages (and >> don't have time to dig around it on the web), but I'd like to see commit >> log/messages containing the number of fixed issue referenced and no commit >> messages without that number. >> >> In OOo times, the commit logs were in the following structure: >> >> #12345#: Fix typo (i->y). >> >> Can we do the same/similar in Apache OpenOffice.org? >
