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  • EditLocal.rst only said "write a short, meaningful commit message" -- document the actual convention: [TASK]/[BUGFIX]/[FEATURE] prefix, a why-focused body, Signed-off-by:/Assisted-by: trailers, references to related changelog entries/Gerrit changes/issues, and how Releases: lines relate to automatic backporting.
  • Refreshed the Releases: examples in BackportChanges.rst and ReviewPolicy.rst from the outdated 12.4/11.5 to 14.3/13.4, and added the new trailers to the existing commit-message examples in Changelog.rst and BackportChanges.rst.

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EditLocal.rst only said "write a short, meaningful commit message."
Document the actual convention: [TASK]/[BUGFIX]/[FEATURE] prefix, a
why-focused body, Signed-off-by/Assisted-by trailers, references to
related changelog entries/Gerrit changes/issues, and how Releases:
lines relate to automatic backporting. Also refreshed the Releases:
examples in BackportChanges.rst and ReviewPolicy.rst from 12.4/11.5
to 14.3/13.4.

Verified with the full Docker render pipeline.

Assisted-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Lina Wolf
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CybotTM commented Aug 15, 2026

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Why not just following conventional commit messages format?

https://www.conventionalcommits.org/

It seems commonly accepted and known, you do not need to describe it here, except saying "conventional commits required"

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