@offay, I've seen similar comments on the Fossil forums. I don't have faith in developers to write "good commit messages". You need only see this comic to understand my feelings: https://xkcd.com/1296/ . Developers (in general) are lazy, and this is not entirely caused by "laziness", but these days more often due to lack of established best practices and lack of time. Developers will perform the least amount of steps to get code into production. PRs, while being bureaucratic, put a hard stop in front of developers which forces them to think much harder about their proposed changes and how they will be used and perceived by others. While this slows down development, even in small teams, it is a net win for code quality.
My biggest complaint with PRs with git is that the PRs and not wholly encapsulated within the repo. This is bad for privacy, bad for custody, and bad for archivability. But better documentation and more deliberate contributions are worth these trade-offs, if a better system comes around I'm always interested. On Friday, August 21, 2020 at 2:14:02 PM UTC-4 off...@riseup.net wrote: > > On 17/08/20 11:28 a. m., Edward K. Ream wrote: > > The days of cowboy commits are coming to an end. > > > > In future, I plan to create a PR for all my work. A PR is a good > > record of what has been done, and it should help prevent unwanted > > merge conflicts. > > > > I think separate PR's for all work makes sense for all of Leo's devs. > > What do you think? > > > I dislike them. I think they introduce an unnecessary bureaucracy in > most projects with small/solo developers and that good commit messages + > actual diffs can be good enough for most project as commit > documentation. But of course, each project and its developer community > have different styles and ways to work together. > > Cheers, > > Offray > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/e3fcfb9e-c9fc-4795-a8bc-a59add33207fn%40googlegroups.com.
