Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:11:38 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT access Message-ID: <20011115191138.K35048@klapaucius.zer0.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011115133402.1877A-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <200111151810.fAFIAf931515@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011115133402.1877A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On 2001-11-15 13:36 -0500, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
> It strikes me that the CVSROOT/access commit messages are getting less and
> less readable over time. While I appreciate the benefits of a good joke,
> it might make sense to avoid obfuscating the real content of the message
> when doing so. It seems like there are a few basic questions that need to
> be answered for new committers:
>
> (1) Who will their mentor be
> (2) What will they be doing
> (3) What kind of committer are they (ports, src, ...)
4. Their username
I actually enjoy the flavorful CVSROOT/access logs as one of the
interesting social features of the FreeBSD community. Perhaps
we could make welcome both the hard data and the jokes, history,
and other cultural information by providing fields for the basics
and freestyle prose afterward.
The following field names could be added to our standard list.
Committer Name: (FAMILY given | given FAMILY)
Username: username
Mentors: [mentor ...]
Commit Trees: [{doc,ports,src,www,projects,distrib,all} ...]
Project: [project description]
Comments and improvements welcome, of course.
Greg
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