On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 10:02 AM Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > That's why we have committers. It's been said, but I'll repeat: As > > committers, I know it's mundane, but we really need to make sure the > commit > > and PR messages will be helpful to someone who looks at them in the > future. > > But it would help the committer by at least assuring that there is > something in the three sections. And it will help to develop better > habits by the people who currently submit PRs with totally inadequate > description. > > Remember when the coding style checks were a big hurdle for us (around > last February). It felt like it was going to sink us and that we might > have to back off from those checks. But we stuck with it and now it is > not such a big issue. That is partly because more code now follows the > coding standard, but also because contributors are better informed and > have developed better habits because of the PR checks > > I think we can do the same for PR and commit comments. Agreed. Let's develop good habits and encourage / help each other to have good log messages.
