I happen to agree that the commit messages suck, but the right thing to do is have a look at the script and suggest a patch on the infrastructure mailing list. I would do it myself, but have a paper
<http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/tools/hook-scripts/mailer/>
See mailer.py.
the long list of files is obviously broken, and the commit template does not include prefixes for
Submitted by: Reviewed by: Obtained from:
which are really really important.
We'd probably need to do work on enhancements for this. -- justin