[LLVMdev] [cfe-dev] RFC: put commit messages in *-commits subject lines?

[Tanya Lattner]

On Jan 26, 2013, at 9:49 AM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 6:22 AM, Tobias Grosser <tobias at grosser.es> wrote:
>> On 01/26/2013 01:41 AM, Eli Bendersky wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:37 PM, David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at google.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Daniel Dunbar <daniel at zuster.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 4:00 PM, Tobias Grosser <tobias at grosser.es>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 01/26/2013 12:15 AM, Daniel Dunbar wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Ok, this is done and seems to work.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> As far as Chris's request for getting "key directory" paths into the
>>>>>>>> commit message, I thought about working on it, but in the end I'm not
>>>>>>>> sure why we shouldn't just encourage people to self-tag their leading
>>>>>>>> commit line with some sort of standard key ([MC], [Target/Mips],
>>>>>>>> whatever).
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Very nice.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> While at that, who can get rid of the [llvm],[cfe-commits], ...
>>>>>>> prefixes?
>>>>>>> I remember we agreed they just cost screen real estate.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Careful here, these may be used to set up filters in mail clients, and
>>>>> an alternative has to be provided.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Agreed.
>>>> 
>>>>> For instance, I have a filter that sends all [compiler-rt] related
>>>>> mail to its own folder, which is quite important for me.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> the [compiler-rt] prefix is for the specific repository, rather than
>>>> the mailing list - that would remain (it's part of the svn mail
>>>> sending process), but the mailing list prefix is a property of the
>>>> mailing list software overall, which is what's going to (potentially)
>>>> be removed.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> OK, I see.
>>> 
>>>> That being said, even though I (& probably most gmail users) have
>>>> mailing list rules setup based on list headers rather than subject
>>>> prefixes, like you, I wouldn't be sure that everyone has this setup or
>>>> that it's convenient for everyone to do so.
>>>> 
>>>> I'd like this change, I'm just not sure how to evaluate whether it's
>>>> correct (short of changing it seeing how many people complain/how many
>>>> of them cannot be helped/fixed)
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I guess that the need can be summarized to:
>>> 
>>> - If email comes from separate email addresses (or "to" separate
>>> addresses), further specification in the subject is superfluous and
>>> can be nuked.
>>> - If email is otherwise indistinguishable but comes from different
>>> sub-projects, some specification in the subject has to be retained to
>>> allow effective mailbox management.
>>> 
>>> What am I missing?
>> 
>> 
>> I don't see anything missing.
>> 
>> I asked to remove the list name from the subject, as it is already provided
>> in the "List-Id" header of all mailing list emails and is consequently
>> redundant. The different svn sub-projects are useful and I don't think we
>> should remove this information.
>> 
>> Chris replied to that request earlier (15. Nov):
>> 
>> 
>>> I agree that the list name is redundant and should be dropped, but
>>> the revision number is compact and very useful...
>>> 
>>> -Chris
>> 
>> If we agreed to perform this change and we found the person who can change
>> it, we can probably give a heads-up a couple of days before to see if
>> anybody will have major issues.
> 
> SGTM - thanks for the recap/quotation. (but, yes, I'm not the person
> who can change that - hopefully Tanya or one of the other admins will
> speak up with details)


Yes, I can remove the list name. I'll confirm with Chris and I can send email to the lists before it is done. Sound ok?

-Tanya