[squeak-dev] Commit messages revisited
Bernhard Pieber
bernhard at pieber.com
Thu Oct 22 08:49:11 UTC 2009
One reason why I really like individual commit messages is that they
can serve as starting points for disscussing one particular change.
That has already happened quite a few times. I think we will lose that
with digests.
Cheers,
Bernhard
Am 21.10.2009 um 08:38 schrieb Nicolas Cellier:
> 2009/10/21 David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com>:
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:35:25PM -0700, Andreas Raab wrote:
>>>
>>> What I have been proposing is to use the mailman digest features
>>> to have
>>> the commit messages go to a separate commit list and cross-post a
>>> daily
>>> digest from the commit list to Squeak-dev. This should help us to
>>> keep
>>> awareness up and I think dealing with a single commit summary per
>>> day
>>> would keep the volume low enough for people to keep up with.
>>>
>>> I'm curious what people think about this idea or if you have other
>>> proposals for balancing these tradeoffs.
>>
>> Perhaps the response will vary according to what mail reader is being
>> used. For myself, I use a simple text mail client (mutt), and it is
>> very
>> convenient to scan through the commit messages quickly, deleting them
>> as I get the gist of what was done. This is easy and and efficient,
>> so
>> I am satified with the current notifications.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>
> I personnally do not much like digests, precisely because containing
> too much information at a time.
> The best feature of digests is that they are throwable in one click,
> I'm afraid that's the olny one.
> I'm not sure if we must legiferate at each specific event (a French
> sport !)
> The question is whether such burst of activity will occur frequently
> or not.
>
> Nicolas
>
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