From owner-svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Sat Sep 19 16:38:42 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C834A0583E; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:38:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd.contact@marino.st) Received: from shepard.synsport.net (mail.synsport.com [208.69.230.148]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2465F1819; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:38:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd.contact@marino.st) Received: from [192.168.1.20] (163.Red-81-44-5.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net [81.44.5.163]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shepard.synsport.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A2D943BEA; Sat, 19 Sep 2015 11:38:37 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: svn commit: r397316 - in head/graphics: . pikopixel To: Alexey Dokuchaev , David Chisnall References: <201509191058.t8JAwta3045896@repo.freebsd.org> <20150919115554.GB99928@FreeBSD.org> <1207D78B-4C60-4AC4-829B-C51D812370EB@FreeBSD.org> <20150919153526.GB94614@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Reply-To: marino@freebsd.org From: John Marino Message-ID: <55FD8F89.3000007@marino.st> Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 18:38:33 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150919153526.GB94614@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 16:38:42 -0000 On 9/19/2015 5:35 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 04:24:36PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote: >> On 19 Sep 2015, at 12:55, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: >>> Not to pick on David in particular, but I've started to notice these >>> one-line "port foobar added" commits with not a single bit of >>> explanation what is that thing. Please add a few words, e.g. an >>> excerpt from pkg-descr or COMMENT. >> >> Given that the commit include the *entire* contents of pkg-descr and >> COMMENT, wouldn't such a thing be somewhat redundant? > > With respect, no. Commit *mail* does include it; third-party aggregators > like FreshPorts or some RSS feed would typically only quote commit log. > > It really helps to attract attention; maybe that's something I've been > looking for some time, but scarce commit log would just not trigger it. +1 Please don't consider the email I get in my inbox connected to the actual commit message at all. Commit message should stand alone, without the help of the email (which is why messages should as "- update to 1.3.1" are so terrible, there's no context whatever when only viewing svn log) John