svn commit: r397316 - in head/graphics: . pikopixel

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Sat Sep 19 15:35:26 UTC 2015


On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 04:24:36PM +0100, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 19 Sep 2015, at 12:55, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Not to pick on David in particular, but I've started to notice these
> > one-line "port foobar added" commits with not a single bit of
> > explanation what is that thing.  Please add a few words, e.g. an
> > excerpt from pkg-descr or COMMENT.
> 
> Given that the commit include the *entire* contents of pkg-descr and
> COMMENT, wouldn't such a thing be somewhat redundant?

With respect, no.  Commit *mail* does include it; third-party aggregators
like FreshPorts or some RSS feed would typically only quote commit log.

It really helps to attract attention; maybe that's something I've been
looking for some time, but scarce commit log would just not trigger it.

./danfe


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