Dear Evolution folks, I am bringing up the discussion in bug 682398 [1] on this list. (In reply to comment #13 from Milan) [â]
Regarding the explanation in the commit, I like the bug numbers being clickable,
Milan, unfortunately that is not the case. Neither yet in the Web interface nor will it ever be the case when using `git` on the command line.
thus one can see whole story about the change, rather than summarizing it to few sentences. I agree that bug reports can be sometimes long and hard to read, but it's still the place where the change can be discussed.
Please look at it from the perspective of package maintainers. They are (like you) already overloaded by work and have to keep up with dozens of packages. You cannot expect them to know all the code bases and understand all patches and to find out the implications. Additionally please do not expect people to look at every commit and then at every discussion in Bugzilla. The commit message is the place to describe the problem with its implications, how it was introduced and how it is fixed and what implications the fix has. It would be awesome, if that policy for commits could be set up. (This issue was discussed somewhere already, but again I cannot find the report in GNOME Bugzilla or the message in the list archive. Matthew acknowledge the problem and promised to improve that if I remember correctly. :/) Thanks, Paul [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682398#c13
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