Proposals for commit log policy

[Gunnar Mills]

Hi Alexander,

On 8/21/2018 7:29 AM, Alexander Amelkin wrote:
> Thankfully, for linux-obmc version bumps Patrick Williams and Joel Stanley do a great job by including the 'git shortlog' output. Unfortunately, not everyone is following this rule for bumps.
The autobump tool is here: 
https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc-tools/blob/master/infra/autobump.pl
Could you enhance to have the ‘git shortlog’ in the commit message?
> Now for item 1, it would be great if we could have a mandatory "End-user-impact" line/section, like these added to the following real commits:
>
I really oppose another field/section in each commit. We already have a 
"tested" field. What happens when someone else wants a field for what 
systems this commit effects? This might be a bad example but hopefully, 
you see my point. :)

- Gunnar

> Alexander.