Unifying (parts of) engine and vdsm commit templates.

[Alon Bar-Lev]

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> From: "Saggi Mizrahi" <smizrahi at redhat.com>
> To: "Omer Frenkel" <ofrenkel at redhat.com>
> Cc: arch at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 9:54:28 PM
> Subject: Re: Unifying (parts of) engine and vdsm commit templates.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Omer Frenkel" <ofrenkel at redhat.com>
> > To: "Mike Kolesnik" <mkolesni at redhat.com>
> > Cc: arch at ovirt.org
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:36:54 AM
> > Subject: Re: Unifying (parts of) engine and vdsm commit templates.
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> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Mike Kolesnik" <mkolesni at redhat.com>
> > > To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> > > Cc: arch at ovirt.org
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 2:36:13 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Unifying (parts of) engine and vdsm commit
> > > templates.
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: "Mike Kolesnik" <mkolesni at redhat.com>
> > > > > To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> > > > > Cc: arch at ovirt.org, "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 2:27:05 PM
> > > > > Subject: Re: Unifying (parts of) engine and vdsm commit
> > > > > templates.
> > > > > 
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > > > From: "Dan Kenigsberg" <danken at redhat.com>
> > > > > > > To: "Doron Fediuck" <dfediuck at redhat.com>
> > > > > > > Cc: arch at ovirt.org, "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>,
> > > > > > > "Igor
> > > > > > > Lvovsky" <ilvovsky at redhat.com>
> > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:49:18 PM
> > > > > > > Subject: Re: Unifying (parts of) engine and vdsm commit
> > > > > > > templates.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > <snip>
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > >     Bug-Id: BZ#888888 dummy bz1
> > > > > > > >     Bug-Id: BZ#888889 dummy bz2
> > > > > > > >     Bug-Id: BZ#888890 dummy bz2
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > I think it's fine, though I find the "BZ#" string quite
> > > > > > > redundant
> > > > > > > when
> > > > > > > it appears after "Bug-Id: "
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The BZ# was added (or kept) in order to allow <some>
> > > > > > flexibility
> > > > > > when
> > > > > > referencing to different bug tracking systems (multiple
> > > > > > name-spaces). For example, we may accept conventions of LP#
> > > > > > for
> > > > > > ubuntu launchpad.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Why not simply use a bug link, then?
> > > > 
> > > > It is long... I think the bug description is more important,
> > > > providing both URL and description will make way too long.
> > > 
> > > Bug titles aren't constant. Also they provide little value as
> > > most
> > > of
> > > the time the bug decription and reproduction steps are much more
> > > informative than what the title says.
> > > 
> > > Also in the engine we have lived a long time with bug URL in the
> > > comment and it was very convenient.
> > >
> > 
> > I agree, i find bug url much more convenient than bug title
> +1, most of the time the bug titles don't actually even point to what
> the problem actually was but rather what the reporter thought it
> was.

Hi,

You are awrae that the original suggestion was the bug# and bug title.

One can always refer to the bug if he likes, the URL is well known.

Alon.