Patch commenting question

[Christian Stimming]

Am Dienstag, 11. Dezember 2007 06:57 schrieb Charles Day:
> Do you like to see comments that reference the bugzilla bug number, as in
> "For bug 12345: (explanation)"? Or leave the number off?

Including the bug number is indeed considered helpful. Feel free to add 
detailed explanations (probably not exceeding 3-4 lines, though.)

> Do you want to see my name in there for future questions/blame, or do you
> just leave that sort of history tracking to svn?

I don't think the name is needed in the source code comments. I'd look up 
those things in the history, indeed.

> If I have to analyze an uncommented section of code to figure out how it
> works, can I add some comments to help the next pair of eyes, even if I am
> not changing that code? The file I am working on is pretty slim on
> comments.

Yes, you can do that, but please make those a different (second) patch so that 
the bugfix is one patch on its own (with its included comments, but no extra 
comments).  The same holds for indenting changes.

> Is there some place that these and other coding policies are written down
> so I can read them?

I think the only written policies are in the text file HACKING.

Christian