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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:06:22 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Darren Reed <darrenr@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Commit message attributions (was: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 rc.conf.5 src/etc rc.network src/etc/defaults rc.conf) 
Message-ID:  <200010102106.e9AL6NG23950@netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20001009121554.B74943@ee.follo.net> 

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Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 12:53:24PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote:
> > On Friday,  6 October 2000 at 14:56:56 +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 05:24:46AM -0700, Darren Reed wrote:
> > >>   PR:		20202
> > >>   Submitted by:	Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
> > >>   Reviewed by:	Darren Reed <darrenr@freebsd.org>
> > >>   Approved by:	Darren Reed <darrenr@freebsd.org>
> > >>   Obtained from:	Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net>
> > >
> > > FYI:
> > >
> > > "Reviewed by" and "Approved by" is assumed for the committer himself.
> > >
> > > "Obtained from" is for other software distributions, not users.
> > >
> > > The canonical trappings for this commit message would be just 'PR:' and
> > > 'Submitted by:'.
> > >
> > > No big deal, of course.
> > 
> > Yes, but where can we read this?  I'm pretty sure this is all oral
> > tradition.  We should write it down somewhere.
> 
> /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/rcstemplate, which usually will be inserted as a
> template when you are prompted for the commit message by cvs.

We used to have a detailed explanation in rcstemplate of what to put where,
but people still didn't read it and did it the way they wanted anyway.
It should still be in the cvs history for the file.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
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