"Martin v. Löwis" writes:
Also, could I remind you that a better commit message is probably "make PyUnicode_FromKindAndData raise a ValueError if the kind is unknown".
I think this is asking too much.
This distinction is important enough that it's worth asking non-native speakers to *learn* this one idiom ("make Python do"), and all developers to *use* it (or an equally unambiguous form, if they feel like being original). Whether that's a reasonable burden for individual non-natives is going to depend on the individual, of course. But asking is not out of line.
I believe Victor formulated this in the spirit of
Sure, one can figure that out -- but that's a lot of effort to ask of readers of logs. In general it requires familiarity with the patch being documented.