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From: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
To: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>,
	Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>,
	Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] MyFirstContribution: also explain cover letter in GitGitGadget section
Date: Tue, 10 May 2022 19:45:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875578c1-c3a9-bccb-40a7-b390b6a123ef@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7f64135-7d57-5926-501b-13e83411b4fd@github.com>

Hi Victoria,

Le 2022-04-29 à 12:27, Victoria Dye a écrit :
> Philippe Blain wrote:
>> Hi Victoria,
>>
>> Le 2022-04-27 à 16:43, Victoria Dye a écrit :
>>> Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget wrote:
>>
>>>> +----
>>>> +Adding the 'psuh' command
>>>
>>> Typically I see patch series titles follow the same "imperative mood" as
>>> commit titles/messages (see 'Documentation/SubmittingPatches.txt'). I'm not
>>> sure whether that's a rule written down somewhere or just convention, but
>>> for the sake of consistency you might want to do something like:
>>>
>>> 	"Add the 'psuh' command"
>>>
>>
>> I fully agree. I just copied the existing patch series title from 
>> the git-send-email section further down. I think it would make sense
>> to change this to also using the imperative mood just like commit messages
>> in a preparatory commit. I'll do that.
>>
>>>> +----
>>>> +
>>>> +Your PR's description will used as the body of the cover letter.
>>>
>>> Including the line "Your PR's description..." is somewhat confusing to me as
>>> a first-time reader, since I was interpreting this section to be the
>>> *verbatim* text of the pull request title & description. If this *is* meant
>>> to be that description, then the note about the PR description can be
>>> removed. That point is also mentioned above, so it's probably not needed
>>> here anyway.
>>
>> I'm not exactly sure what you mean. I meant that the description of the PR
>> will be used as the body of the cover letter...
>>
> 
> Sorry for being unclear. What I meant was that, the way this part of the
> document reads (to me) right now, it looks like the recommendation is to
> create a pull request with the title & description:
> 
> Title: 
> 	Adding the 'psuh' command
> Description:
> 	Your PR's description will [be] used as the body of the cover
> 	letter. <insert content from MyFirstContribution-coverletter.txt>
> 
> That is, the line "Your PR description will..." is the first line of the
> description (which I don't think was your intention).
> 
> That said, upon a more holistic re-read, I've found a few more things that
> are confusing/oddly phrased. I'll try re-reviewing (part of) the patch
> below, with (hopefully) more direct/concrete feedback this time:
> 
>> -Review the PR's title and description, as it's used by GitGitGadget as the cover
>> -letter for your change. When you're happy, submit your pull request.
>> +Review the PR's title and description, as they're used by GitGitGadget as the
>> +cover letter for your change. The cover letter describes your proposed
>> +contribution as a whole and is ideal to mention any context that might be
> 
> s/is ideal to/should(?)
> 
>> +useful for reviewers. The title of your PR should be something which
>> +succinctly covers the purpose of your entire topic branch, for example:
>> +
>> +----
>> +Adding the 'psuh' command
>> +----
> 
> Other than the "Adding" -> "Add" change, this is good - the example title
> will be formatted as a monospaced block, clearly separating it from the
> advice/context preceding it.
> 
>> +
>> +Your PR's description will used as the body of the cover letter.
>> +include::MyFirstContribution-coverletter.txt[]
>> +
> 
> Conversely, this section has no visible separation between the context
> ("Your PR's description...") and the example
> ("include::MyFirstContribution-coverletter.txt[]"), hence my confusion
> earlier. 
> 
> To parallel the title example, maybe you could use similar monospace
> formatting for the example? E.g.:
> 
> +
> +Your PR's description will used as the body of the cover letter.
> + 
> +----
> +include::MyFirstContribution-coverletter.txt[]
> +----
> +
> 
> One thing I noticed on my re-read is that the context you provide for the
> title ("The title of your PR should be something...") isn't quite paralleled
> in the context for the description ("Your PR's description..."). The former
> talks about *how* you should write your cover letter title, whereas the
> latter simply states that the PR description will become the cover letter's
> content. For added context, then, you might want to describe how the cover
> letter content should be written, e.g.:
> 
> +
> +Your PR's description will be used as the body of the cover letter and
> +should explain the purpose of the series, for example:
> + 
> +----
> +include::MyFirstContribution-coverletter.txt[]
> +----
> +
> 
> (note the s/will used/will be used)
> 
> Apologies for all the picky grammar comments - this series includes a lot of
> really helpful information for new contributors, and I really appreciate
> your work here! Hopefully my feedback is a bit more clear this time (and is
> relatively straightforward to implement).

Thanks for your feedback. I'll send an updated and expanded version soon
and I think I've adressed the different things you noted.

Cheers,

Philippe.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-10 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-27 19:04 [PATCH 0/3] Improve MyFirstContribution's GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-04-27 19:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] MyFirstContribution: move cover letter description to a separate file Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-04-27 21:15   ` Eric Sunshine
2022-04-27 22:02     ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-27 21:48   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 18:16     ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-27 19:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] MyFirstContribution: also explain cover letter in GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-04-27 20:43   ` Victoria Dye
2022-04-28 18:21     ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-29 16:27       ` Victoria Dye
2022-05-10 23:45         ` Philippe Blain [this message]
2022-04-27 19:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] MyFirstContribution: drop PR description for GGG single-patch contributions Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-04-27 21:56   ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-28 18:25     ` Philippe Blain
2022-04-28 19:43       ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11  1:47 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Improve MyFirstContribution's GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11  1:47   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] MyFirstContribution: add "Anatomy of a Patch Series" section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11  6:20     ` Bagas Sanjaya
2022-05-11 21:30       ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 21:48         ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-11 22:09           ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-12 23:00             ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-12 12:11     ` Philip Oakley
2022-05-12 22:53       ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-11  1:47   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] MyFirstContribution: add standalone section on cover letter Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 10:01     ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 21:49       ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-11  1:47   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] MyFirstContribution: reference "The cover letter" in "Preparing Email" Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11  1:47   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] MyFirstContribution: reference "The cover letter" in GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11  1:47   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] MyFirstContribution: drop PR description for GGG single-patch contributions Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-11 10:11   ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Improve MyFirstContribution's GitGitGadget section Junio C Hamano
2022-05-11 17:45   ` Victoria Dye
2022-05-12 23:43   ` [PATCH v3 " Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43     ` [PATCH v3 1/5] MyFirstContribution: add "Anatomy of a Patch Series" section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43     ` [PATCH v3 2/5] MyFirstContribution: add standalone section on cover letter Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43     ` [PATCH v3 3/5] MyFirstContribution: reference "The cover letter" in "Preparing Email" Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43     ` [PATCH v3 4/5] MyFirstContribution: reference "The cover letter" in GitGitGadget section Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-12 23:43     ` [PATCH v3 5/5] MyFirstContribution: drop PR description for GGG single-patch contributions Philippe Blain via GitGitGadget
2022-05-19 21:49     ` [PATCH v3 0/5] Improve MyFirstContribution's GitGitGadget section Junio C Hamano
2022-05-21 16:17       ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-22  1:35         ` Junio C Hamano
2022-05-24 12:29           ` Philippe Blain
2022-05-24 19:06             ` Junio C Hamano

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