On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Alex Ionescu ionucu@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