Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Freitag, dem 08.09.2023 um 17:27 +0200 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
> I have the same positive view on our faux ChangeLogs commit messages,
> though I also would like to have them generated.  The benefit is
> still there: I still get to *review* an effective summary of the
> changes before pushing or sending them off for review.  But at least
> I don’t have to write them myself.
> 
> Now, this is no longer a problem for me because I’ve been writing so
> many commit messages over the years (and because I no longer try to
> adhere to some poorly specified format), but it *is* a problem for
> people that I’ve mentored.
> 
> etc/committer.scm and the yasnippets are supposed to alleviate some
> of the pain, but I don’t need to think for a long time to come up
> with a number of improvements in this area.
Can I assume this to mean it'd take you some short time to think of
snippets that we're currently lacking?  If so, please do contribute
them.  If not, what do you mean then?

Cheers