git: 4f4e43a4a0f4 - main - New port: regather is an LDAP syncrepl consumer which can perform various actions based on LDAP syncrepl events.

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 27/04/2021 8:09 pm, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Tuesday, 27 April 2021 07:04:39 CEST Kubilay Kocak wrote:
>>>> <title-less-than-75-chars-prefixed-with-component:>
>>>
>>> The first line of a commit message should not be longer than 50 columns.
>>
>> pre-commit(push?) hooks for the win.
>>
>> I was just hinting at a casual 'short' first line.
> 
> Be *slightly* careful with this, since the longest category/portname
> combination is already 61 characters (security/p5-Dancer2-Plugin-Auth-
> Extensible-Provider-Usergroup). As a social thing[1] applying technical
> measures is .. fraught.

Yep, precisely why I didn't suggest a stricter/smaller shortlog title 
length.

Sometimes summaries cant be made super terse without losing meaning/context.

> [ade]
> 
> [1] Suggested description of the social thing we're trying to achieve: the
> first line of the commit message should mention what port is being updated and
> give a very short statement of the nature of the update, followed by a blank
> line -- this is so that the nature of the change is easily communicated to all
> ports maintainers through email, git-history-viewers, and git in the terminal.
>