Re: [Nmh-workers] Refactoring the nmh source

[pmaydell]

Joel Reicher wrote:
>I'd like to start refactoring the code. I've had a look around, and much
>of it is a little messy.

>I have three questions for the list. Firstly, are there any objections to
>the basic idea of doing this?

It sounds like a good idea to me.

>Lastly, what's the policy with commits and ChangeLog? I'd prefer to do
>frequent and small commits, but that may annoy some people. I also wouldn't
>put most of what I'm planning to do into the ChangeLog.

I agree with small commits, but am less sure about the ChangeLog. At the
moment ChangeLog seems to be a record of just about everything that's done
to the code, large or small, so I think refactorings ought to get mentioned.
(It seems to mostly duplicate CVS log comments, which makes me wonder if
it shouldn't be autogenerated.) Perhaps we should have a different document
that only describes the changes significant to users -- bugs fixed, new
functionality added, etc ?

-- PMM