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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 19:31:40
Message-Id: 20170523073106.3491b59b@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fixing elasticsearch maintainer by Sam Jorna
1 On Mon, 22 May 2017 14:24:24 +1000
2 Sam Jorna <wraeth@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > I suspect it's likely a misunderstanding - without notification, all
5 > anyone from Proxy Maint sees is proxy-maint being removed. An E-Mail
6 > to proxy-maint@g.o explaining that you've spoken to and are taking
7 > over proxying of the package would make sure we know what's happening.
8
9 Clear and detailed commit messages are also kinda useful here too.
10
11 Really easy to do a `git commit -m $MESSAGE` wherein $MESSAGE is far
12 too short to be of use to anybody trying to make sense of what happened
13 later.
14
15 You can write letters to grandma in your commit messages, so it doesn't
16 really hurt to write enough so a drunk version of yourself who had an
17 accidental lobotomy can later make sense of it.