[Development] the need to add a Task-Number in the release branch ...

[Thiago Macieira]

On quinta-feira, 14 de novembro de 2013 13:27:42, Koehne Kai wrote:
> I guess what Ossi was wondering about was ' the commit message [should]
> state why this change belongs into the release branch' . It would be IMO
> weird to have sentences starting with 'This patch has to go into the
> release branch because ...' in the commit message. This reasoning (if it's
> not immediately clear from the commit itself) can happen in gerrit.

Don't write "this patch has to go into the release branch". Write instead 
"this change is important because" :-)

> 
> In general I think we agree that any commit message in the release branch
> should get more attention than say in the dev branch, and that the rule
> should be 'if in doubt, create a JIRA task.'. But I'm also in favor of
> having this as a rule of thumb, instead of a hard rule.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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