> > > ... I often find I miss editing the field and just click on 'save' > (probably > > something to do with the fact that conceptually seeing the wiki as part > of > > the VCS is still 'new' to me). I am always evangelising about providing > good > > commit messages but editing them post hoc is a bit of a pain. > > So, how about when you click 'save', there is a *further* page which then > > prompts for the commit message? This would -- for me at least! -- make it > a > > lot easier to remember to enter a sensible message. The second page could > > also show the diff so it could be summarised properly. > > We usually take efforts to minimize the number of steps necessary to > achieve a goal. This seems like a bit heavyweight to me. I am > personally leaning towards the more sane default of simply including > the wiki page name in the default message presented to the user. It at > least provides a better starting point when reviewing changes in the > version control system. >
Agreed. I forgot to mention that I know you guys like minimal clicks (as do I). :-) So how about making this feature of having a separate page optional so that people can decide on a per-project basis? > > As jagernot says, users could specify their own default message. I was > also > > wondering if there could be a length restriction that project owners > could > > enforce, especially requiring a non-empty log message. > > What do you think, Nathan? Others? > > :Darren. > > This could be useful if we provide a template system for the messages. > It's quite likely that project owners may want to include the edited > wiki page name, project name, user name, or some other piece of > pertinent information. > All sounds great. Which quarter? ;-) :D -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :Darren :Pearce-Lazard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** Shop & Donate: http://buy.at/campuskids *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] Postdoctoral Researcher London Knowledge Lab, University of London ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] Visiting Research Fellow Informatics, University of Sussex http://www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/darrenp/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [email protected] http://www.linkedin.com/in/darrenpearce ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Project Hosting on Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en.
