James SavageSomething I'm still working on is not saying "we" in my commit messages. It was always kinda weird since I wrote most commits alone; but at least when I was on a big team there was an obvious "we" I might be referring to. Doing it on personal projects just feels silly though š
smfr@smfr I think part of it is that I know I'm copying the style of academic papers when I do it, which is why it feels pretentious. Likeā¦ I'm documenting why I moved some buttons around. This isn't a research paper. I need to calm down š¤£
@smfr for better or worse though, not much about my commit writing process has changed from working on Safari.
Tsubasa@axiixc many academics have moved to accept usage of "I" when only a single author is on a project. I think normalizing this language, even if it feels a little informal, is good! Especially for students who are the only author contributing to their paper, such as a term paper for a class.
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@Catfish_Man something I used to tell new hires was that they'd know they'd been on the team for long enough when they were the cause of most of the bugs they had to fix. Although I guess there's more than one way that implication could go.