[Freeswitch-users] Commit message usefullness

[Florian Lohoff]

Hola,

On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 04:13:52PM -0500, Anthony Minessale wrote:
> Maybe if you didn't phrase it like a complaint it would be more meaningful
> but it reads as though you are mad that you had to do work to debug your
> issue in our software for your paying customer.  I find the message
> offensive and had to resist less polite responses that came to mind.

Commit messages containing bug ids are nice to track which commit closes
a bug - but are not helpful in finding changed behaviour.

And looking at every individual diff or every individual ticket is
impossible without deep understanding of the full inner workings. So it
might be possible for you - its impossible for the rest of us. Thats the
point i am trying to make - For ME the changelog entrys are useless and
i made a point why.

I dont care if you as the developers change - discuss - or think about
it. We are not using freeswitch - we are just technicians trying to
solve problems around us.

The development style of freeswitch makes it hard to follow changes and
debug behaviour.

In our internal git trees we have a bug id/ticket number + short
explanation in the shortlog and sometimes full email conversations in
commit messages for reference purposes. So when we change ticket systems
we dont devaluate our commit logs.

Flo
PS: It wasnt a paying customer - just a helpless one with error logs
contain 500 responses to SIP re REGISTERs of his CPEs we as an ISP
connect to the network - so before ranting its not our business i was
trying to answer with helpful content.
-- 
Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de
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