16 Dec
2009
16 Dec
'09
3:50 p.m.
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Alex Ionescu <ionucu(a)videotron.ca> wrote:
You know what else is boring? Going to a shitty
university class, going to meetings at work, listening to your wife whine about her
backstabbing girlfriends, and helping your child work out a 4th grade math problem.
It's called responsibility.
If we made it a requirement for people just be responsible and write
proper Changelog messages as part of the commit then there would not
be the added responsibility of doing it after the fact. The release
manager could just grep for important shit and be done with it.
I am in favor of public ridicule, even those of us that don't code but
review patches can help out. Every time some commits a patch with an
inconclusive Changelog we should call them to the carpet and if it
keeps happening they need commit access revoked. I know of no other
major open source project that would put up with the shit.
Thanks
--
Steven Edwards
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo