back to Juan's original point: (I think this was anyway) +1 to details and more details on the commit message and if removing pedantic guidelines and just using tooling to word wrap will encourage better communication via better commit messages
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 8:33 AM Owen Nichols <onich...@pivotal.io> wrote: > Apache values people over process. So I am in favor of removing any > “rules” regarding commit messages (except for: must put a colon after the > GEODE ticket number!) > > Guidelines (not rules) can be helpful. I would like developers reading > our commit message guidelines < > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Commit+Message+Format> > to be inspired to "tell the story of your work”, not waste 10 minutes > manually reflowing a paragraph because one added word made the first line > too long to cat to lp. > > I think adding a few examples of well-written commit messages to our > guidelines would be the best use of that wiki page. > > -Owen > > > > > On Oct 8, 2019, at 7:54 AM, Juan José Ramos <jra...@pivotal.io> wrote: > > > > Hello Alberto, > > > > It might help to add the reminder to the PR template but, honestly, I > don't > > think many people is actually paying much attention to that... in fact I > > recall another email thread from some time ago discussing getting rid of > > the template altogether :-/. > > Cheers. > > > > On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 11:58 AM Alberto Bustamante Reyes > > <alberto.bustamante.re...@est.tech> wrote: > > > >> I think its a good idea to have an automatic mechanism to reject commits > >> that exceed a given limit. > >> In the previous project I was assigned we used Gerrit instead of Github, > >> and we had an automatic check to vote -1 if your commit message exceeded > >> the limit. > >> > >> Anyway, while this is decided, a quick action could be to add a new line > >> to the PR template, at least to remember it: > >> > >> - [ ] Is your commit message length below the limit of 50 characters? > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ________________________________ > >> De: Juan José Ramos <jra...@pivotal.io> > >> Enviado: martes, 8 de octubre de 2019 11:32 > >> Para: dev@geode.apache.org <dev@geode.apache.org> > >> Asunto: Re: [DISCUSS]: Commit Message Format too Short? > >> > >> Hello Owen, > >> > >> Yes, I fully agree with you. And just to be clear, I wasn't trying to > >> discourage descriptive commit messages, on the contrary, we certainly > must > >> encourage them at all cost!!. It was decided that we should, however, > try > >> to keep consistency across all commits and make the subject brief, > adding > >> the full details within the body of the text; as described in *How to > write > >> a Git commit message [1], *referenced in our *Commit Message Format > >> [2] *article. > >> Right now we're not enforcing this rule, there are even some commits > >> without the ticket number at the beginning of the commit subject :-/. > >> I guess the goal of this thread is to gather some feedback and opinions > >> from the community to better decide how to proceed: remove the rule, > >> increase the maximum amount of characters from 50 to something else in > the > >> commit message subject, automatically enforce the rule altogether and > >> prevent commits that don't follow it, etc. > >> Best regards. > >> > >> [1]: https://chris.beams.io/posts/git-commit/ > >> [2]: > >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Commit+Message+Format > >> > >> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 10:07 AM Owen Nichols <onich...@pivotal.io> > wrote: > >> > >>> I don’t care how long it is, but knowing that many tools show only the > >>> first bit, it’s helpful if the message is phrased with the most > important > >>> words near the beginning. > >>> > >>> I’d much prefer to encourage rather than discourage descriptive commit > >>> messages. Even better if all commit messages mentioned more about _why_ > >> the > >>> change is being made, not just describe the diff. > >>> > >>> But most important of all, NEVER forget the colon between the ticket > >> number > >>> and the rest. I learned that the hard way :( > >>> > >>> -Owen > >>> > >>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 1:52 AM Ju@N <jujora...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hello devs, > >>>> > >>>> I've notice that, lately, not everybody is following the guidelines we > >>> have > >>>> highlighted in our Wiki under *Commit Message Format [1]*, specially > >> the > >>>> first requirement: *GEODE-nn: Capitalized, 50 chars or less summary. > >> *As > >>> an > >>>> example, out of the last 33 commits in develop, only 11 follow the 50 > >>> chars > >>>> max rule. > >>>> Even though I've always followed this "rule", I often find it hard to > >>>> provide a summary of the commit in less than 50 chars, that's probably > >>> the > >>>> reason why other people are just ignoring this part of the > guidelines?. > >>>> Should we increase the maximum amount of characters from 50 to > >> something > >>>> else?, should we add a hard check in order to automatically enforce > the > >>>> rule?, should we delete the rule altogether?, thoughts?. > >>>> Best regards. > >>>> > >>>> [1]: > >>>> > >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Commit+Message+Format > >>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> Ju@N > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Juan José Ramos Cassella > >> Senior Software Engineer > >> Email: jra...@pivotal.io > >> > > > > > > -- > > Juan José Ramos Cassella > > Senior Software Engineer > > Email: jra...@pivotal.io > >
