Format for JDK 6/7 changeset comments?

Andreas Sterbenz Andreas.Sterbenz at Sun.COM
Thu Nov 8 18:36:01 UTC 2007


Mark Reinhold wrote:
> 
> I disagree with you about where reviewers should be acknowledged.
> 
> Reviewing code is tantamount to authorship.  From one of our internal
> guideline documents (which is already in the process of being cleaned
> up for external use):

That's fine. And the names of the reviewers should be stored in the bug 
database, along with all the other information about the fix. Do you agree 
with that?

If that's the case, the value of duplicating this information in the 
changeset comment seems of limited value to me.

Andreas.




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