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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | Re: Should we restore manually maintained ChangeLogs |
Date: | Tue, 8 Mar 2016 17:08:39 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 |
On 03/08/2016 09:05 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
By giving up on the need to fix them, we inadvertently send a very loud and clear message to the newcomers saying that good, correct, and accurate log messages are not important.
We also send that message by giving up on the need to write good commit messages in the first place. If we were to tell newcomers something like "Thanks, that was a nice patch, and could you please add a commit message following the guidelines so that we can install it for you?" then they will figure things out. But if we instead keep installing such patches as-is and maybe fixing the commit messages ourselves later, we are in effect telling contributors not to bother writing good commit messages.
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