Contributors Meetup Async Update - October 14th, 2023 - October 27th, 2023

[kmccormick (Kyle McCormick)]

@antoviaque

@kmccormick @Rebecca_S_Graber Was there any conclusion about this? Is the goal to streamline/simplify the process for communicating / deciding on code changes that impact others?

@antoviaque The conclusion was that we (Axim, 2U Arch-BOM, and hopefully CCs too) will make more of an effort to remind PR authors to mark breaking changes using conventional commit messages:

Reminder: Mark your BREAKING CHANGE with an exclamation point!

Back in 2021 we adopted Conventional Commits to standardize how Open edX developers communicate their code changes to various audiences (other developers, API users, end users, etc.). One particularly important part of the OEP is about marking breaking changes in the commit summary line and explaining them in the commit body: Breaking changes include an exclamation point as part of the type label. … Breaking changes especially should have detailed information about the implicat…