[OE-core] Commit messages

[akuster808]

Paul,


On 10/09/2016 05:35 PM, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> 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*.
Also helps in determining if a commit needs to be backported to stable 
branches.

> 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.
Agreed. We also need more folks reviewing incoming patches to help 
spread the load.

The other options is to should start rejecting commits that do comply to 
the guidelines.

Thanks for bringing this up.


Regards,
Armin
>
> Thanks,
> Paul
>