Re: svn commit: rev 7223 - trunk/packages/rpm/mandrake-9.1

On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 20:23, Garrett Rooney wrote:
> Perhaps not, but people have asked you to review existing log messages
> in the repository so you can see how they should be done. For a
> nontrivial change those log messages have a short statement at the top
> stating what is being done.

I *did* review them. I didn't get THAT aspect of it just from reading
it. What's obvious to you, may not be to everyone else. We can't all be
equally insightful.

> > Will someone at least for once tell me what the membership of the Log
> > Police is and who is in charge?
>
> Nobody is in charge, this is a community project and we work by
> consensus. The people who have been correcting you are all respected
> members of that community who have been around here a lot longer than
> you have. As others have said already, perhaps you should settle down
> and lurk on the lists for a while so you can get an idea how things are
> generally done around here. It really is the best way to learn.

I need one voice with final say on what the log message should be. I
can't sit here repeatedly making changes to the log message just because
the next person thinks it should be purple. Obviously there should be a
consensus.

If you all can interpret the HACKING file differently, and I can
interpret it two different ways, by reading it with two different
mind-sets, how am I supposed to know what to do? If everyone feels the
log message needs to be different, how can I figure out the acceptable
minimum???

If you go reread the HACKING file, you will notice there is absolutely
nothing about summarizing at the beginning of a log message. The
self-same vaunted HACKING file everyone keeps referring me to.

I haven't been reading this stuff for 3 years. Volunteer some time and
maybe I can get up to speed sooner.

-- 
Shamim Islam
BA BS
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