Hi committers,
I see that we're now quite good at putting jira references in our
first commits. That's good! However sometimes when we make a mistake,
or forget something to commit, we don't put again the reference to
the JIRA issue in the subsequent commits.
It would be better if we were always putting the reference to JIRA.
For example, I fixed something related to XWIKI-49 this morning and I
used the following format:
"
XWIKI-49: PDF generation failed with vietnamese characters encoded in
UTF-8
* Replaced SNAPSHOT by a timestamped version so that the build can be
reproduced and so that we can perform a release of RC2 tomorrow.
* Moved out the JTidy <dependency> as it was now wrongly in the
"custom xwiki repository" section.
* Removed JTidy from our custom XWiki repository
"
Why do we need this?
Because it then makes it very easy later on to find what happened
related to a JIRA issue. We had this need for example when we were
trying to find out the difference between 2 branches (you may
remember, I spent a whole day on that a month ago). Thanks to the
Subversion plugin in JIRA we can see what happens related to an
issue. For example:
http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-49?
page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.ext.subversion:subversion-commits-
tabpanel
However that only works if we have put a reference to the jira issue
in the commit log.
Thanks
-Vincent