[OE-core] Commit messages

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi folks,

I've been going through the commits in preparation for our release notes, and 
unfortunately what I'm seeing is that the number of empty or incomplete commit 
messages has noticeably increased over previous releases. Commit messages are 
vitally important to providing a readable history, not just in support of 
preparing release notes, but also if you're trying to track down a regression 
or any other reason you might want to go back and find out what has been done 
and most importantly *why*.

Here are our commit message guidelines, which have been in place for some 
time:

  http://www.openembedded.org/wiki/Commit_Patch_Message_Guidelines

I know everyone's busy, but please take 5 minutes to read these if you haven't 
recently and try to keep them in mind when writing commit messages. No commit 
is too trivial for a complete commit message.

Thanks,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre