On 3/8/07, Moshe Weitzman <weitzman@tejasa.com> wrote:

I am happy to let everyone know that the fine email digest service at http://drupaldigest.com has a new editor for the 'cvs commit messages' mailing list. Greg Knaddison replaces myself as the poor soul who reads all commit messages and hand picks the most important ones and puts them into a high quality rss feed. He reads the logs so you don't have to.

Thanks, Moshe. For what it's worth, Moshe and I discussed the idea of editorializing in the posts. My personal bugaboo is http://drupal.org/node/52287 "Commit messages--providing history and credit" At this point I plan on pointing out when there are repeat offenders who provide no message or messages like "fixed bugs". Maybe 7000 messages a month will change my mind, but yesterday I watched sadness come over Ezra's face as he realized that patches he provides won't show up in the list of commits on http://drupal.org/user/69959 And then I watched happiness come back into his face as he saw http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=59709 So, cheers to RobRoy for making the right kind of commit message! Now that I've personally felt the joy of getting a "thanks greggles" for my patches and now that I've seen the same (de)motivation in other people I feel justified in pointing out commit messages that leave out credit. I'll attempt to contact folks prior to any public comments, but this is a first alert. Greg