[gmx-developers] some notes on using redmine

[Szilárd Páll]

Having a link from a bugfix commit to the report in redmine is in my
opinion important. Also very important is to actually file a proper
bug report if a bug affects _any_ released version and/or if it's
major/takes long time to fix. I suggest adding these to the
development guidelines.

Slightly unrelated, but in my opinion also important is the fact that
a bug/feature/task does not need to be assigned to someone at the time
of filing and when it gets assigned it means that somebody took the
responsibly to work on it.

--
Szilárd



On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Teemu Murtola <teemu.murtola at cbr.su.se> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 01:56, Mark Abraham <Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au> wrote:
>> I think it would be overkill to require the creation or linking of a Redmine
>> issue for every commit, however. Thoughts?
>
> Requiring it could indeed be overkill, but we could try to make it a
> strong recommendation.  This way, Redmine would get much more easily
> integrated into the workflow, because people would be forced to think
> about the issue at least a bit.  Adding something like IssueID #NNN at
> the end of a commit message should be enough (or perhaps configuring
> Redmine such that it would link commits that start with [#NNN]) in
> cases where the issue number does not naturally fit into the commit
> message.
>
> Another thing that would be worth thinking about is the formatting of
> the commit messages.  Many git tools, and it seems that Redmine as
> well, work somewhat better if commit messages are formatted according
> to the guidelines put forth in many git tutorials: first a max
> ~50-char line with a short summary, then an empty line, and then a
> more detailed description of the commit (many places suggest max 72
> character lines, and, e.g., gitk works badly with long lines).  If
> nothing else, this would make the activity page in Redmine more
> readable.
>
> Teemu
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