Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight

Sam Ravnborg
2007-10-09T06:27:36Z

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 08:11:53AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > But for those that run test suites, they should be smart enough to put
> > in more documentation into the change log to state how it was tested.
>
> I disagree. The SCM changelog should contain _what_ a patch does and if
> necessary _why_ it does so.
The _why_ part is more important than _what_. The diff should hopefully
explain the _what_ part.

Sam