From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 15 20:17:52 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.gnf.org (relay.gnf.org [208.44.31.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1057A37B405; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:17:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gnf.org (smtp.gnf.org [10.0.0.11]) by relay.gnf.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAG4HmJ31810; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:17:48 -0800 Received: by mail.gnf.org (Postfix, from userid 888) id 27D3B11E504; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:14:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.gnf.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24A1211A572; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:14:52 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:14:52 -0800 (PST) From: Gordon Tetlow To: Robert Watson Cc: Maxim Sobolev , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT access In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Robert Watson wrote: > It strikes me that the CVSROOT/access commit messages are getting less and > less readable over time. While I appreciate the benefits of a good joke, > it might make sense to avoid obfuscating the real content of the message > when doing so. It seems like there are a few basic questions that need to > be answered for new committers: > > (1) Who will their mentor be > (2) What will they be doing > (3) What kind of committer are they (ports, src, ...) > > This commit message failed to explicitly answer (1) and (2), and (3) was > not clearly represented. I'd really appreciate it if future access commit > messages could attempt to be explicit on these three points, and relegate > the obligatory joke to being a secondary function of the message. Why not add a rcstemplate exclusively for CVSROOT/access? It should be very easy to do. -gordon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message