It’s certainly not as if anyone is entitled to anything better. It’s just bad practice. I wouldn’t want people critiquing me based on the work I do for free either, though.
And that’s the issue I have with that. Imagine you are fabricio and you find this post. Next time you probably won’t make it public even if there is a remote chance, that it might help someone else.
I agree, the post shouldn’t have called him out directly by name. It should’ve been a post of just a screenshot with the commit messages, and not mention the repository or the person. It’s definitely not nice, and may even affect the person - I mean, if I was called out like that somewhere and seen people laughing at my practices, I wouldn’t be exactly happy.
On the other hand, I think that raising the issue in itself - FOSS repositories without commit messages - is a pretty good discussion that fits here well. It’s just a shame that it had to be at the expense of some FOSS developer, because it also derails the discussion into talking more about the guy and whether he can or cannot do it (such as your comments, which I agree with), instead of focusing on what are the issues with FOSS projects without commit messages in general. Because there are many arguments why it’s important, and a few arguments about why it shouldn’t matter, which makes for an interresting discussion about best practices and why they are important.
This. Like if they are working for free for the public good, don’t complain if they don’t do it thoroughly enough. If someone volunteers to pick up trash from the park, you wouldn’t complain if he misses some things or stops before the whole park is clean.
For me, the thing is, commit messages aren’t just for other people. They can be invaluable in case you need to look back for something. I even write them for my personal repos that aren’t even on the internet, because it’s really just kinda dumb not to.
Yeah, but that doesn’t mean that everyone else has to work as methodical as you do for any project they do. Even if it is more efficient and saves time in the long term.
Not really programming horror. Just open source. They did something, are kind enough to make it open, they don’t care about commit messages so what?
It’s certainly not as if anyone is entitled to anything better. It’s just bad practice. I wouldn’t want people critiquing me based on the work I do for free either, though.
And that’s the issue I have with that. Imagine you are fabricio and you find this post. Next time you probably won’t make it public even if there is a remote chance, that it might help someone else.
I agree, the post shouldn’t have called him out directly by name. It should’ve been a post of just a screenshot with the commit messages, and not mention the repository or the person. It’s definitely not nice, and may even affect the person - I mean, if I was called out like that somewhere and seen people laughing at my practices, I wouldn’t be exactly happy.
On the other hand, I think that raising the issue in itself - FOSS repositories without commit messages - is a pretty good discussion that fits here well. It’s just a shame that it had to be at the expense of some FOSS developer, because it also derails the discussion into talking more about the guy and whether he can or cannot do it (such as your comments, which I agree with), instead of focusing on what are the issues with FOSS projects without commit messages in general. Because there are many arguments why it’s important, and a few arguments about why it shouldn’t matter, which makes for an interresting discussion about best practices and why they are important.
This. Like if they are working for free for the public good, don’t complain if they don’t do it thoroughly enough. If someone volunteers to pick up trash from the park, you wouldn’t complain if he misses some things or stops before the whole park is clean.
For me, the thing is, commit messages aren’t just for other people. They can be invaluable in case you need to look back for something. I even write them for my personal repos that aren’t even on the internet, because it’s really just kinda dumb not to.
Yeah, but that doesn’t mean that everyone else has to work as methodical as you do for any project they do. Even if it is more efficient and saves time in the long term.