From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760776AbZDWXIn (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756281AbZDWXIa (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:30 -0400 Received: from vena.lwn.net ([206.168.112.25]:46364 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758820AbZDWXI3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:08:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:08:27 -0600 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Paul Gortmaker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tytso@mit.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH] documentation: list common guidelines for commit log content Message-ID: <20090423170827.47618b4e@bike.lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <1239908456-24871-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> References: <1239908456-24871-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:00:56 -0400 Paul Gortmaker wrote: > Recent discussions on lkml have brought to light that it is > probably worthwhile documenting some of the common (yet up to > now implicit) requirements that exist for commit log content. > This is by no means exhaustive, but it is a start. Sorry I sat on this for a week; I've not ignored it. The change made me uncomfortable, despite the fact that I didn't really disagree with anything in it. I guess I feel that there's only so far that it makes sense to go with big long lists of do's and don't's. That document is plenty long already... So I put together something shorter which tries to focus on the problem at a higher level. But maybe others disagree? Thanks, jon