Re: [ jEdit-devel ] log messages

[Kazutoshi S. <k_s...@f2...>]

Matthieu Casanova wrote:
> 2012/1/13 Kazutoshi Satoda<k_s...@f2...>
>>  While you say you understand it is useful, I don't remember your log
>>  message explicitly explaining the reason. I have wondered it long time.
>>
>>  What's the trouble for you to write such good log messages?
>>
>>  I think if the author feel hard to tell a reason about the change, it
>>  likely indicates some lack of thoughts about the change.
>
> I'm not against writing good log messages, what I say is that it is boring
> to work hard on something and only receive remarks that are often rude.

I don't understand. If you work hard to write good log message and
actually did it, you will not receive such remark.

Remembering what I sent you in reply to commit mail, do you have felt
them often rude? What other way should I do in that case to ask you not
to make same problem again?

>>  Matthieu Casanova wrote:
>>>  2012/1/13 Kazutoshi Satoda<k_s...@f2...>
>>>>   Insufficient log messages can cause repeated question later like this.
>>>>   Note that this is a quite lucky case; the question was posted on
>>>>   jedit-devel in time, and you still remember about the discussion.
>>>>   Consider what happens if a potential new developer got the question
>>>>   several months later.
>>>
>>>  A new developper should try to make something useful, not questionning
>>>  everything.
>>
>>  Questions are often required to make something useful.
>>
> The fact is that we don't have new developpers for the core.

I'm afraid of that there are people, for example, who start straggling
in core, got lost on a questionable change, and silently stop working on
that. As you know we want new developers so I think we should avoid such
case, don't you?
-- 
k_satoda