PQM Submission authors

Aaron Bentley aaron.bentley at utoronto.ca
Tue Dec 11 15:22:28 GMT 2007


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John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> One point (a long time ago) I thought I remember us requesting that each PQM
> submission be prefixed with the author. Which I have continued to do. But it
> seems like Aaron, Robert and Vincent (and others?) have stopped doing that for
> a most submissions.
> 
> I personally like seeing the author, as I actually make use of it. I always use
> "bzr log --short" to get a screenfull of information about what is going on, so
> I don't see whether a given change was made by Aaron or Robert, just "PQM".
> (Certainly we would like to change PQM to use --author, or maybe --submitter?.)

For some reason, I'd gotten the impression that was done to attribute
changes to third parties.

> a) "(Author Name) message". Their full name, spelled out, just for consistency.
> b) Patches which are specifically bug fixes should have "bug #XXXXX" in their
> commit message. This also has the advantage that Launchpad's revision view will
> link it correctly.

I think it's crufty to be jamming all this in the commit message,
especially given that I try to restrict messages to 79 characters.  But
I'll try to do it for now.

Aaron
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