As part of the guidelines for the body we suggest keeping lines with a max of 100 characters. That doesn't work anymore with the new gerrit UI. I suggest we change it to 65-70 max (unless we can change the width of that box)
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The industry standard seems to be 72 characters for the body. Perhaps Gerrit is expecting that.
[Posting here because @TK-999 boldly changed the guidance from 100 to 72, and I reverted.]
I slightly disagree; the length of 100 chars works well enough. Happy to go with the flow if there's consensus, of course.
Also, given we're migrating off gerrit, I think we shouldn't worry too much about current UX issues there, assuming this guidance will outlast it.
I agree, no need to discuss or change this now.
I’ve slightly updated the text (mainly because I disliked the guidance to manually wrap the message), and added a mention of the customary 72 limit, while leaving 100 as the maximum. permalink