[squeak-dev] Please keep a clean and dense history (was: The Trunk: Collections-dtl.802.mcz)

Chris Muller asqueaker at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 04:09:35 UTC 2018


Thanks guys.  I thought of another good one earlier today and just added it.

On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:09 AM, K K Subbu <kksubbu.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I merged your guidelines under appropriate sections in:
>
> *How to contribute to Squeak* at http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3279
>
> Could you please give it a quick review to make sure that I haven't messed
> it up? Thanks.
>
> Regards .. Subbu
>
>
> On Monday 16 July 2018 04:10 AM, Chris Muller wrote:
>>
>> Looking forward, please consider some guidelines for Trunk submissions:
>>
>>     - Live with the code for a few days first.
>>     - Consider sharing it via the Inbox for extra review eyes.
>>     - When saving the MCZ version, arrow through every single change
>> and review it.
>>     - When saving the MCZ version, describe why the change is being
>> made rather than what.
>>     - When saving the MCZ version the use the description to explain
>> why the change is being made rather than what.
>>     - When saving the MCZ version, remember to consider all the other
>> "objects" of the MCZ besides just the code and description,
>> specifically, there are the pre and post scripts, as well as the MCZ
>> name.
>>   - Consider batching up trivial improvements (i.e., a fixed
>> misspelling of a comment) together and/or piggy-backed with other
>> non-trvial change within that same package.
>
>
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