[Nix-dev] On commit naming conventions

[Arseniy Seroka]

Nowadays probably almost everyone writes commit names that follow our rules.
So it's not so hard to ping somebody to fix the name for the beauty sake of 
git's log.

-- 
Sincerely,
Arseniy Seroka



On 4 May 2016 14:26:45 zimbatm <zimbatm at zimbatm.com> wrote:

> Each contributor has his own motivations and every round were we provide
> feedback is another one where we might lose the contributor. He might run
> out of energy, or have moved onto other things.
>
> Even after improving the CONTRIBUTING.md, naming of commits is still a
> really big friction to getting valid code into nixpkgs. I'm talking of how
> commits should be named after a patter like "package: init at x.y.z" or
> "package: a.b.c -> x.y.z".
>
> I must admit I don't really know the motivations behind this rule. All I
> can think of it that we could theoretically build some tooling and get
> pretty cool stats out of it. And that spelunking git history becomes a tiny
> bit easier.
>
> Given all that I think we should reconsider that rule. In my opinion if a
> contributor submits valid nix code that is useful to the project we should
> just be able to merge it and move forward. For me it's more important than
> the commit naming rule.
>
> Opinions ?
>
>
>
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