[Python-Dev] bpo-5001: More-informative multiprocessing error messages (#3079)

[Paul Moore]

On 31 August 2017 at 20:27, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> So you would want a comment when the PR reaches "awaiting merge" with
> instructions requesting the author do their own squash commit to simplify
> the message for us?

That would work. It could say that the PR consists of multiple commits
and the commit message needs to be summarised when merging, and
suggest that if the submitter is willing, they could squash and
summarise the message themselves. I don't want to give the impression
we're insisting the submitter squash, rather we're pointing out
there's an additional step needed and the submitter can help by doing
that step if they wish.

> There's also https://github.com/python/bedevere/issues/14 to help
> post-commit remind core devs when they forgot to do something. While it
> would be too late to fix a problem, hopefully regular reminders would still
> be helpful.

Yeah, that would probably be useful for regular committers.

Paul