D22973: docs: introduce commit message guideline

Roman Gilg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.kwin
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romangg added inline comments.

INLINE COMMENTS

> zzag wrote in HACKING.md:147
> What's the main argument for keeping the first letter in lower case?
> 
> If the first letter is not capitalized, then `<subject>` blends with `<type>(<scope>):`.
> 
> IMHO, `fix: Add more bugs to fix later` is much better than `fix: add more bugs to fix later`.

I assume it's because in English language you are not supposed to capitalize after colon. I don't directly prefer one over the other after using the non-capitalized way in English text now for quite some time but preferred the capitalized way in the beginning since I was used to it from German.

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  https://phabricator.kde.org/D22973

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