[pdt-dev] Formalize commit / patch description patterns

["Dawid Pakuła" <zulus@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have two proposition for today.

1. Since around year, most (if not all) commit messages follow this pattern at first line:

Bug 12345 / No bug - Short bug description

I propose to make it as a standard and put information about this into our Contribution Guide [1]

2. As you probably noticed, since couple days (weeks) gerrit automatically add patch and commit links to our bugs.

To avoid confusion and questions like “Is this ready to review / IP process?” i have a proposition to add “[WIP]” prefix before bug description:

Bug 1234 - [WIP] Description

Alternative could be:

[WIP] Bug 1234 - Description 

Platform UI standard. But this probably also disable gerrit bot until message update (I’m not sure).

What do you think / prefer? 

[1] - https://wiki.eclipse.org/PDT/Contributing

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Dawid Pakuła 

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