From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Descriptive subjects
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 12:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150515122844.GK4767@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5555DA64.9030101@redhat.com>
> > May I ask that people send emails to this list with more descriptive
> > subjects than, e.g., "Fix PR/12345". The numbers don't stick in my
> > head even after I've seen them 20 times, so I have to look in all
> > these emails to determine whether I need to read them. I'm sure I'm
> > not alone.
>
> Agreed.
+1. In fact, I would even suggest that we follow that guideline
for revision logs as well. When going through the log trying to
identify the commits that might be responsible for a change in
behavior, "PR bla/12345" is not very helpful for that.
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-05-15 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-15 7:59 Gary Benson
2015-05-15 11:37 ` Pedro Alves
2015-05-15 12:28 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2015-05-15 20:01 ` Joel Brobecker
2015-05-15 17:32 ` Patrick Palka
2015-05-15 18:38 ` Doug Evans
2015-05-15 18:40 ` Doug Evans
2015-05-18 9:10 ` Gary Benson
2015-05-18 20:25 ` Doug Evans
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