From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail-iw0-f175.google.com ([209.85.214.175]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PBmT3-0007K4-7Z for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:45:57 +0200 Received: by iwn42 with SMTP id 42so2898620iwn.6 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:45:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=NZeMuv8Y9aC4+6b56y69CekNmB+ufPEYWnzFWaJN0jM=; b=xRCpPEYwBnWT3UZnannkqbgQ37FNdnHuOUaaQiw0NHHu0Q0T+5hu8aJUcooLV2yTVY NvID19x8lS1zTfvqT10DQ/d2F7T3SbFJsN49t4S0yZkS02Zkg4faR6Eu9nvJaetfoE9k L/4xNKEZ6l2bkLuHQ8CFc8xdanNdfUkSNOST8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LNCPv+Im9xFo0YxWe7DnEjZibl7ayB+rWF62uvq/y0HmV5laaB/y6JhFpDMcLoepIu hG7VNgQlOIiL3FD/FNAo2LP9deqgDkJWnQ3D0r21beVX2KZ+KP7V0fZi3+GzXtkpN4lr tbmXBBZaGBFeUZMne7BQTC4z/mN1D2V4gw/xg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.31.196 with SMTP id z4mr212469ibc.81.1288349108712; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.40.13 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Oct 2010 03:45:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1288342969.18134.5.camel@mattotaupa> References: <1288342969.18134.5.camel@mattotaupa> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:45:08 +0200 Message-ID: From: Frans Meulenbroeks To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 209.85.214.175 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: OEDEM 2010: [RFC] useful commit message X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:46:08 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 2010/10/29 Paul Menzel : > Dear OE folks, > > > could you please discuss the following proposal. > > I would very much like more elaborate commit messages. This is in my > opinion already demanded by the commit policy [1], but often patch > submitters, especially those not sending changes to review to the list, > since they have direct access to the repository, fail to adhere to the > policy. > > The reason is, quite often I do not understand why a change was > necessary. It would very much help me, if at least the error message was > pasted to be able to compare with one=92s own error messages and what > distribution and machine was used to test the recipe. > > I added an item to the OEDEM wiki page too [2]. > > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > [1] http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php/Commit_Policy > [2] http://wiki.openembedded.org/index.php?title=3DOedem%2F2010&diff=3D29= 61&oldid=3D2954 > It has been added to the agenda! Thanks for bringing up this topic. Frans