perfsonar development work

["Jeff W. Boote" <>]

I have a request for developers when they submit changes into svn.

After having been out of touch for two weeks... I can tell you that trying to 
figure out what has been happening in the code is somewhat challenging. The log 
messages are too cryptic.

They often give specific information as to what is being changed, but that is 
not really the information needed in the log message. The diff pretty much tells 
me that information.

The information needed in the 'log' message is "why". I'm not asking that 
developers turn this into a novel, but the information that needs to be in the 
log message is the information that tells others "why" you are making the change 
you are making. We can read the diffs to determine "what" was changed. But, that 
does not tell us the information that is needed to understand the change.

Thanks,
jeff