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

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Dienstag, dem 05.09.2023 um 11:01 -0600 schrieb Katherine Cox-Buday:
> On 9/5/23 10:01 AM, Simon Tournier wrote:
> 
> > Well, somehow, I consider the commit message format similarly as
> > coding
> > style.  We can discuss which one is better than the other when at
> > the
> > end it only reflects some artificial preferences and for the sake
> > of any
> > project one needs to be arbitrarily picked.  Why not ChangeLog?
> 
> The distinction I draw is that I can usually run a linter against a 
> coding style.
> 
> I don't care very much what the standard for commit messages is other
> than if it has an expectation of structure, I be able to run a tool
> to 
> tell me if it's wrong.
> 
> In other words, the overhead isn't "I don't like this standard", it's
> "I can't find a way to reliably adhere to the standard".
Uhm, we have snippets?