Add documentation on how to write good descriptions for changes.
Review Request #6858 — Created Jan. 31, 2015 and submitted
A common problem encountered by new contributors to the project is that the commit messages or review request descriptions aren't always sufficient to describe the change without requiring additional information from a bug report or diff. Sometimes they focus on referencing bug numbers or filenames, and sometimes they don't go into what the core problem was that the change addressed. This makes it harder to write release notes or to scan for review requests for a given topic. This adds a page to the codebase documentation explaining guidelines and tips for writing good review request and commit descriptions. It's broken down into sections for summaries, descriptions, testing, and general writing tips.
Built the docs and viewed them. Formatting looked correct.
Ran spell checker. Didn't see any spelling errors.
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Can we add a new paragraph in here? Writing good change descriptions is first and foremost a question of good … |
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How about "Make sure that your spelling and grammar is correct"? I don't want minor errors either :) |
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grammer? |
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Can we add a new paragraph in here?
Writing good change descriptions is first and foremost a question of good writing. Make sure that everything you write uses full sentences with proper spelling and capitalization.
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How about "Make sure that your spelling and grammar is correct"? I don't want minor errors either :)
- Change Summary:
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- Added some new text about good writing.
- Fixed a typo.
- Added a recommendation on grammar checks.
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release-2.0.xmaster
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123429d60772d2ebb611afaa2a970f6a5b536d843653886bbcfce98fd85735234e6ae76a769309d1
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- Change Summary:
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I FOUND TYPOS AND I FIXED THEM ALL BY MYSELF.
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3653886bbcfce98fd85735234e6ae76a769309d1cc261fdb3ceb1270a40542e2d87e587d5d64176c
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