531824 - Add commit hook to each supported VCS (CVS, SVN, Hg) to require a non-empty log message

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Services :: General, task)

Description

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Too many people commit things to SVN with empty log messages (as in, no log messsage at all). We should require some type of log message for all commits via a pre-commit hook.

Comment 1

[Aravind Gottipati [:aravind]]

Not sure I can just randomly enforce a policy like this without this being discussed first.  Please have that discussion first (on some public location) and re-open the bug when its approved there.

Comment 2

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

I disagree that this is something that has to go through the normal policy making process, as I can't foresee any possible reason why somebody would not agree with my request to ensure our VCSes have log messages that aren't completely blank.

However, I will start a thread on m.governance about this, but I again don't think it's necessary in this particular case.

Comment 3

[Aravind Gottipati [:aravind]]

I never said someone would disagree.  The point is to at least let folks know that such a change is coming.  The public announcement would at least serve that pupose, if not spark a discussion.

Comment 4

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

While Google Groups doesn't show the thread at all, I brought this up on m.governance, and nobody disagreed. However, people did feel this should be done for all VCSes, not just SVN, so expanding this bug to cover all VCSs. If you wish, I can find separate bugs for each VCS.

Comment 5

[Laura Thomson :laura]

This is something that should be on a repo-by-repo or module-by-module basis.