Notes for DLang maintainers

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 at 13:10:17 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> This would be the overwhelmingly frequent case.
> ...
> This indicates a problem with the PR more often than not.

It is unfortunate that these two seem to be true right now, so 
given that, I'll agree with you. Currently a lot of contributed 
code seems to be placed in unnecessarily large commits with 
minimalist commit messages, which would rank lather low on the 
quality scale of large established projects. Ideally changes 
should be split into as many commits as is reasonable, which by 
itself brings a lot of benefits, and described in detail (50-char 
summary, long description of the change, and change rationale). 
For examples, see the commit message guidelines of Linux, git, or 
really any project that's large enough to have commit message 
guidelines.