Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy

[Ricardo Wurmus]

>> - We have strict conventions for commit messages. Our commit message
>>   Changelog is a strange dated practice from the time before good
>>   version control systems. I can live with it, but not everyone likes
>>   it. Let's just say I've heard complaints about it offlist.
>
> AFAIU this is a requirement Guix inherits from GNU (being it a GNU
> project)
>
> I don't remember the ratio for this requirement but AFAIU it made sense
> to me when I read that.
>
> I just hope this requirement is refraining people to contribute and to
> review patches.
>
> Maybe we could help users not using Emacs with other editor-related
> snippets in [~/src/guix/]etc/snippets? (I don't know other editors
> templating systems)

We have an editor-agnostic tool in ./etc/committer.scm.

-- 
Ricardo