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Re: When can we stop writing ChangeLogs?
On 30/09/19 11:56 am, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I think we need to establish a procedure for commit message review as
> well. I would like to be able to tell, based on the posted patch, what
> the commit will look like exactly. Right now, we have a lot of variance
> there, and there have been quite a few surprises (apart from purely
> accidental pushes).
We have git commit messages documented as one of the things that a
contributor needs to pay attention to in the Contributor Checklist, but
enforcement of review has been sketchy. I can't think of a better
solution at the moment than a review tool that requires reviewers to
flag the commit message as being OK.
Siddhesh