Re: Changelogs on kernel.org

Linus Torvalds
2002-05-13T20:57:47Z

On Sun, 12 May 2002, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

> Em Sun, May 12, 2002 at 09:31:03PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert escreveu:
> > Perhaps insisting that each check in message includes a single line (sub
> > 60 chars) description; could turn those into description : name and
> > remove dupes?
>
> That'd be nice indeed, like %{summary} and %{description} in rpm spec files 8)

We already have that requirement for patches that are emailed to me: the
Subject line becomes the first line of the changelog, and as a result
those changelogs are already fairly readable.

The email-patches also tend to have better changelogs for the simple
reason that people think more when they submit patches to me than they
seem to do when they just want to check something in (ie very few people
would send an email saying "fix misc problems" as the body of the email,
yet it's easy to do when you do "bk citool").

Linus