[ros-dev] [PREFIXES] in commit messages still useful?

[Colin Finck]

Hi everyone,

I'm wondering whether our [PREFIXES] in commit messages are still useful 
as of today?
If I recall correctly, they were once added to autogenerate a changelog. 
I also remember that this dramatically failed when Ziliang created the 
0.3.12 changelog and the full changelog needed to be redone from 
scratch, manually of course.

Furthermore, I doubt that prefixes like "[SPRINTF]" (r49512) or faulty 
ones like "{ASM]" (r49413) can still be reasonably associated to a 
changelog category.
After all, we don't even have a list of valid prefixes, so one has to 
first look at all used ones anyway.

Of course, I don't want them to be dropped instantly tomorrow, but I'm 
interested in your opinions.
I also don't yet know about the planned method for creating the 0.3.13 
changelog, so I might be wrong on this.

Cheers,

Colin