On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 06:55:13AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > Out of curiousity, what makes the changes necessary in the first > place? It seems like an incredible amount of effort is going into > standardizing the format of textual summary lines and perhaps the > simplest solution is to just not standardize them at all.
It doesn't hurt to have a recommendation, and personally I really appreciate when people (yes, that includes developers and wranglers ;-) update the line to be more informative. There already is a recommendation on the wiki, part of the Bug Wranglers project [1]. [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Bug-wranglers The difference between the segregation character (be it ': ', ' - ', ' : ' or what not) is for me less of a concern than the fact that it starts with the category/package name+version (and with "<" in front if it has been fixed with that version or higher). That is a real plus as I can easily see how many fixes are in to a package, which ones to mark as FIXED when stabilizing (I tend to use TEST-REQUEST as long as the package is still in ~arch), etc. There are other resources on the wiki as well which might best be aligned with whatever recommendation is used. See "Beautiful bug reports" [2] and "Bugzilla HOWTO" [3] as examples. [2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Beautiful_bug_reports [3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugzilla_HOWTO Wkr, Sven Vermeulen
