[PATCH, v3] wwwdocs: e-mail subject lines for contributions

[Richard Earnshaw (lists)]

On 03/02/2020 11:54, Alexander Monakov wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 2020, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> 
>> I've not seen any follow-up to this version.  Should we go ahead and adopt
>> this?
> 
> Can we please go with 'committed' (lowercase) rather than all-caps COMMITTED?
> Spelling this with all-caps seems like a recent thing on gcc-patches, before
> everyone used the lowercase version, which makes more sense (no need to shout
> about the thing that didn't need any discussion before applying the patch).
> 
> Also, while tools like 'git format-patch' will automatically put [PATCH] in
> the subject, for '[COMMITTED]' it will be the human typing that out, and
> it makes little sense to require people to meticulously type that out in caps.
> Especially when the previous practice was opposite.
> 
> Thanks.
> Alexander
> 

Upper case is what glibc has, though it appears that it's a rule that is 
not strictly followed.  If we change it, then it becomes another 
friction point between developer groups.  Personally, I'd leave it as 
is, then turn a blind eye to such minor non-conformance.

Quite frankly, then bit that matters most is what follows that, since 
that is what gets written into the git commit message.

R.