Re: Summarizing the purpose of a change.

[Stefan Monnier]

> So far, everyone who's chimed in has basically said "Yeah, I try to do
> this".  But my question is more about making it policy, in the sense
> that of making it appropriate to follow up to change saying "How about a
> summary line for that?"

We could try it.  I think adding such a summary line can be
useful, indeed.  We could try to make it more of a convention, indeed.
As somebody else pointed out, many VCS have special support for such
"summary line".
And after all, we already do the same for docstrings.
Let's try it for a while,


        Stefan