[ros-dev] [PREFIXES] in commit messages still useful?

[Zachary Gorden]

Some are useful, some aren't.  I use them as a general guideline for when I
put together newsletters and as, tiresome, as parsing through the commit
logs was for the past release, the prefixes did help me figure out how
commits were related.  Something like [SPRINTF] is a bit too specific.
[RTL] would have been sufficient and more informative.

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Edison Henrique Andreassy <
ehasis at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I like the those [PREFIXES]. I usually keep looking at cia.vc and
> monitoring what's happening.
>
> Regards,
> Henrique
>
> -----Mensagem Original----- From: Colin Finck
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 8:26 PM
> To: ReactOS Development List
>
> Subject: [ros-dev] [PREFIXES] in commit messages still useful?
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm wondering whether our [PREFIXES] in commit messages are still useful
> as of today?
> If I recall correctly, they were once added to autogenerate a changelog.
> I also remember that this dramatically failed when Ziliang created the
> 0.3.12 changelog and the full changelog needed to be redone from
> scratch, manually of course.
>
> Furthermore, I doubt that prefixes like "[SPRINTF]" (r49512) or faulty
> ones like "{ASM]" (r49413) can still be reasonably associated to a
> changelog category.
> After all, we don't even have a list of valid prefixes, so one has to
> first look at all used ones anyway.
>
> Of course, I don't want them to be dropped instantly tomorrow, but I'm
> interested in your opinions.
> I also don't yet know about the planned method for creating the 0.3.13
> changelog, so I might be wrong on this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Colin
>
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