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Re: File names in ChangeLog entries


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: File names in ChangeLog entries
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 02:10:03 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> There is a good reason to keep that first summary line as short as possible.
[...]
> Many free software projects have adopted a "50 characters, with no trailing
> dot" rule for that first line, to the point where programmers often treat it

50 chars seems enough to include some "subsystem" information, so
I think our two proposals are compatible.


        Stefan





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