Simon Tournier <zimon.touto...@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 at 17:27, Ricardo Wurmus <rek...@elephly.net> wrote: > >> Now, this is no longer a problem for me because I’ve been writing so >> many commit messages over the years (and because I no longer try to >> adhere to some poorly specified format), but it *is* a problem for >> people that I’ve mentored. > > Well, from my point of view, you cannot know if another way to write > commit message format would not be a problem either. :-) Let’s not write them at all and have them generated. People are still expected to read them before sending them off, to be sure that they say what was intended. > I think we have a consensus about the complexity for contributing. From > my point of view, all the “cognitive complexity” are not equal. Some > cognitive loads are totally useless and just pure friction – the number > of steps for checking and submitting for example – and it brings no > value at all for the project. Other, as commit message format, also > leads to some friction but it also brings value for the project. Agreed. -- Ricardo
