Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 20:14:52 -0800 (PST) From: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@gnf.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT access Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111152014090.19247-100000@smtp.gnf.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011115133402.1877A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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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
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