On Tuesday, April 25, 2017 at 11:11:28 AM UTC-4, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > On 4/25/17 10:50 AM, Alexander Surkov wrote: > > I don't want to affirm that this approach suites every Mozilla module, but > > it seems be working well in relatively small modules like accessibility one. > > Just as a counterpoint... as non-regular contributor to the > accessibility module, I have a _very_ hard time making sense of > accessibility commits, precisely because the commit messages are not > often not very descriptive and the bugs are often hard to make sense of > for a non-expert. > > I don't have this problem in cases where I'm similarly out of my depth > but commit messages contain more information.
I bet there's always room for improvements, and I hope this was a counterpoint for the example only, not for the bug organization approach. Overall it feels with me that long comments vs check-the-bug is rather different styles, with their own benefits and disadvantages, and different people prefer one over another one. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
