Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC pre-GLEP] Gentoo Git Workflow

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

On 07/27/2017 03:52 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On śro, 2017-07-26 at 19:17 +0200, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote:
>> On 07/25/2017 10:05 AM, Michał Górny wrote:
>>> ** <kbd>Fixes: <nowiki>https://bugs.gentoo.org/NNNNNN</nowiki></kbd>;; —
>>> to indicate a fixed bug,
>>
>> At this point fixes is overloading
>>> ** <kbd>Fixes: commit-id (commit message)</kbd> — to indicate fixing a
>>> previous commit
>>
>> This use should be forbidden.
>
> ...because? But sure, you don't like it, let's remove it. Not that
> anyone will actually prefer the things from the GLEP over anything else.
>

Because it overloads the tag for multiple meanings and as such should be
different tags, we already have a tag that specifies the bug (namely
Bug, presuming we use Reference: for URL specification of relevant
upstream information or other discussions)

>>> ** <kbd>Bug: <nowiki>https://bugs.gentoo.org/NNNNNN</nowiki></kbd>;; — to
>>> reference a bug,
>>
>> See other comments in thread wrt Gentoo-Bug.
>>
>>> ** <kbd>Closes: <nowiki>https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/NNNN</nowi
>>> ki></kbd>; — to automatically close a GitHub pull request,
>>
>> Is this a generic tag for any pull request of any platform?
>
> No. As I've told multiple times already, there are *no* generic tags. It
> just happens to be used by some random platforms. Some others use e.g.
> 'Fixes' which you forbade.
>

Isn't that the point of having a GLEP to begin with? Trying to
standardize the use of e.g the tags so that it has a consistent meaning
and can be useful?

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