From owner-cvs-all Fri Nov 20 12:51:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15648 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:51:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nu.binary.net (nu.binary.net [12.13.120.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA15640 for ; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 12:51:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nathan@rtfm.net) Received: from matrix.binary.net (nathan@matrix.binary.net [12.13.120.2]) by nu.binary.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA01106; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:50:58 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nathan@localhost) by matrix.binary.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id OAA29829; Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:50:58 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19981120155057.A29272@rtfm.net> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:50:57 -0500 From: Nathan Dorfman To: Greg Lehey , cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Categorizing commit messages References: <19981120092813.H467@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981120092813.H467@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 09:28:13AM +1030 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, Nov 20, 1998 at 09:28:13AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > I suppose about 100 commit messages get sent out every day. We're all > exhorted to read every one of them. I try to do that, but I'm sure I > miss some important stuff. Looking at what I've had over the last few > months, I'd estimate the following breakdown: > > 1. Typos, cosmetic changes. About 20% > 2. Minor bug fixes, style changes. About 30%. > 3. Major bug fixes. About 10% > 4. New functionality in existing software. About 5%. > 5. New software (mainly ports, but also things like CAM, etc). About > 35%. > > These differences are relatively easy to recognize, but you have to > read *all* the messages to find out. How about a field in the commit > message which says what kind of change it is? This is more important > than just being able to find out what has changed: documentation, > including release notes, also depends on it. > > Comments? Ideas? Definitely a great idea. It would be great to have procmail sort the important messages out and put them in a separate folder/flag them. This way on a tight schedule you could know in advance which you should look at and which can be safely saved till later. > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key -- ________________ ___________________________________________ / Nathan Dorfman \ / "`IE4 brings the web to UNIX'? *laughing* / nathan@rtfm.net \/ Isn't that similar to Ronald McDonald bringing / finger for PGP key \ religion to the pope?" -Jamie Bowden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message