Re: Template for commit messages - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Template for commit messages
Date
Msg-id 56AEAF3A.4000105@commandprompt.com
Whole thread Raw
In response to Re: Template for commit messages  (Michael Paquier <michael.paquier@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Template for commit messages
Re: Template for commit messages
List pgsql-hackers
On 01/31/2016 04:34 PM, Michael Paquier wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 2:44 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>> On 01/29/2016 03:05 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>> One of the offers is to credit them (I'm not exactly clear
>>> on what is the group to benefit from this, but the phrasing used in the
>>> meeting was "contributors to the release") by having a section somewhere
>>> in the release notes with a list of their names.
>>
>>
>> I can see this as being a nice thing but knowing that someone is a
>> contributor isn't hard. There is a contributor list on the website and it is
>> obvious from mail lists, archives and simple searches who is actually
>> participating.
>
> This page would need a refresh IMO. I think it has not been touched
> for the last couple of years.

No doubt but if we can't bother to keep that refreshed what makes us 
think that a structured format in commit messages that magically 
(through a lot of hard work and extra parsing anyway) is going to be any 
more accurate?

Sincerely,

JD

>


-- 
Command Prompt, Inc.                  http://the.postgres.company/                        +1-503-667-4564
PostgreSQL Centered full stack support, consulting and development.



pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Michael Paquier
Date:
Subject: Re: Template for commit messages
Next
From: Amit Langote
Date:
Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] VACUUM Progress Checker.