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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