Re: How can we decrease the cognitive overhead for contributors?

[Katherine Cox-Buday]

On 9/5/23 10:01 AM, Simon Tournier wrote:

> Well, somehow, I consider the commit message format similarly as coding
> style.  We can discuss which one is better than the other when at the
> end it only reflects some artificial preferences and for the sake of any
> project one needs to be arbitrarily picked.  Why not ChangeLog?

The distinction I draw is that I can usually run a linter against a 
coding style.

I don't care very much what the standard for commit messages is other 
than if it has an expectation of structure, I be able to run a tool to 
tell me if it's wrong.

In other words, the overhead isn't "I don't like this standard", it's "I 
can't find a way to reliably adhere to the standard".