Hi,

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 12:20:59AM -0700, David Champion wrote:
> * On 30 Aug 2016, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: 
> > > When $flag_safe is set, flagged messages cannot be deleted.
> > > 
> > note that many of your patches have a "malformed" summary: you should
> > use imperative (or simple past, but kevin appears to prefer the former).
> > you're supposed to describe a transition, not a state.
> 
> That's ideal for a bug fix. It works less for new capability, where
> describing the transition from a code perspective doesn't really tell
> you anything since the prior state didn't exist.
> 
> Unless you're suggesting simply "Add $flag_safe."  I'm OK with that,
> but see below.

That's because you describe the diff here, and not the purpose of the
patch. You could change the commit title to something like "Add a flag
to prevent some messages from being deleted".

Thanks,
-- 
Damien

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