[Freeswitch-users] Commit message usefullness

[Anthony Minessale]

Not much better of a response.
 On Sep 15, 2013 12:17 PM, "Florian Lohoff" <f at zz.de> wrote:

>
> 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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