From owner-cvs-all Thu Nov 15 19:11:43 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.zer0.org (klapaucius.zer0.org [204.152.186.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E3B37B416; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:11:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail1.zer0.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7B6C8239A05; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:11:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 19:11:38 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter To: Robert Watson Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT access Message-ID: <20011115191138.K35048@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <200111151810.fAFIAf931515@freefall.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="0qVF/w3MHQqLSynd" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Organization: Zer0 X-Purpose: For great justice! Mail-Copies-To: poster Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --0qVF/w3MHQqLSynd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2001-11-15 13:36 -0500, Robert Watson wrote: >=20 > 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:=20 >=20 > (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. =20 The following field names could be added to our standard list. =20 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 --=20 Gregory S. Sutter Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm mailto:gsutter@zer0.org for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll http://www.zer0.org/~gsutter/ be warm for the rest of his life.=20 hkp://wwwkeys.pgp.net/0x845DFEDD --0qVF/w3MHQqLSynd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: '' iD8DBQE79IPqIBUx1YRd/t0RAlO/AJ9p6KoePLbUFXuj8qQognLWN1ILkgCfX7kT QQbc9VZhNrj0Qstbdvm05Jc= =eyO4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --0qVF/w3MHQqLSynd-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message