On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 9:43 PM Gregory Casamento <
address@hidden> wrote:
So what policy are we settling on for this?
I'd argue "include ChangeLog entry in the commit when creating a Git commit" has benefits for quick mergeability and clear visibility of authorship.
And, because there seems to be a small preference for it (at least due to possible conflicts), "don't include the ChangeLog in your patch when sending the patch to a mailing list" seems to be a good second part of the policy.
So, to expand on Matt's wording:
- When submitting via a mailing list include your ChangeLog entry in
the contents of your email rather than in the diff.
- When contributing in other ways (such as through a Git commit), include
the ChangeLog entry in the primary diff itself.
Can someone put something to that effect on the website?
In the past I have had a script to generate this for me.
It's unclear to me what do you mean, "generate this"?
The script would generate the changelog entry? The commit / email message? From what was it being generated?