Hi Rob, * On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 02:43:10PM -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > Would it be too much additional overhead if we all agreed to track > patch authors, reviewers, bug authors, etc., in Subversion memo's in a > semi-structured way? > > I'm thinking of what the Subversion project does, mainly using 4 > possible fields in the check in memo: > > Patch by: > Suggested by: > Found by: > Review by:
ups I should have read this earlier, I already committed some patches with "Original author:" > (You use whichever are appropriate. Not every check-in will have all four). > > http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/conventions.html#crediting > > The nice thing about this minimal amount of structure is it allows > easy extraction of contributors via a simple script, e.g.,: > > http://www.red-bean.com/svnproject/contribulyzer/ > > As you may know, our current informal approach tracks committers, but > does not explicitly track other contributors. > > -Rob +1 git has a nice configuration setting: commit.template Specify a file to use as the template for new commit messages. "~/" is expanded to the value of $HOME and "~user/" to the specified user’s home directory. http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/v1.7.10.1/git-config.html#_variables May be subversion has something similar. Some templates could be uploaded to incubator/ooo/devtools/ Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
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