Re: Updated HACKING

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed 03 Sep 2008 19:35, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> How about the following:
>>
>>
>> - Provide a description in the commit message, like so:
>>
>>   1-line description of change
>>
>>   More extensive discussion of your change.  Document why you are
>>   changing things.
>>
>>   * filename (function name): file specific change comments.
>
> This looks really good to me. If we move from ChangeLogs, then it makes
> sense to adjust the format as necessary, preserving the same semantics.
> We should probably propose this as the standard GNU format, actually. (I
> believe bzr people use something like this as well.)

Actually, what you're proposing is what I had in mind.  :-)

It's essentially the GNU ChangeLog format, with the addition of the
summary line and optional extended summary.  Adding a one-line summary
has been common practice in some projects, there are examples in Gnulib
and Guile.

Anyway, if you are willing to propose something beyond just that, the
discussion should be directed to `gnu-prog-discuss' IMO.

Thanks,
Ludo'.