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Discussion on: 6 Lessons Learned Maintaining a Popular Open-Source Project

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Rajasegar Chandran

We can make good commit messages common by adding the necessary tooling for the repositories like Conventional commits and enforcing the style with linters and git hooks. It will also be easy for the contributors to follow a standard convention if there is one already available for them to refer.
Anyway as a fellow maintainer, I can agree with you on these lessons.

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Simon Egersand 🎈

In my experience, tooling can only do so much to help with good commit messages. I believe more in a good mindset. If you know the value of a good commit message you will write a good commit message. But if you don't know the value it might just be an inconvenience.