Some are useful, some aren't. I use them as a general guideline for when I put together newsletters and as, tiresome, as parsing through the commit logs was for the past release, the prefixes did help me figure out how commits were related. Something like [SPRINTF] is a bit too specific. [RTL] would have been sufficient and more informative.
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Edison Henrique Andreassy < ehasis@hotmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I like the those [PREFIXES]. I usually keep looking at cia.vc and monitoring what's happening.
Regards, Henrique
-----Mensagem Original----- From: Colin Finck Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 8:26 PM To: ReactOS Development List
Subject: [ros-dev] [PREFIXES] in commit messages still useful?
Hi everyone,
I'm wondering whether our [PREFIXES] in commit messages are still useful as of today? If I recall correctly, they were once added to autogenerate a changelog. I also remember that this dramatically failed when Ziliang created the 0.3.12 changelog and the full changelog needed to be redone from scratch, manually of course.
Furthermore, I doubt that prefixes like "[SPRINTF]" (r49512) or faulty ones like "{ASM]" (r49413) can still be reasonably associated to a changelog category. After all, we don't even have a list of valid prefixes, so one has to first look at all used ones anyway.
Of course, I don't want them to be dropped instantly tomorrow, but I'm interested in your opinions. I also don't yet know about the planned method for creating the 0.3.13 changelog, so I might be wrong on this.
Cheers,
Colin
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