cuopt-developer: PR lifecycle and commit-message guidance - #1899
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…ance to cuopt-developer Restructures PR-related content in contributing.md under a single Pull Request Lifecycle section (Creating / Maintaining / Addressing Reviews) and adds commit-message style notes, prompted by review feedback that PR history was carrying process narration that belongs in code review threads, not git log. Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe contribution guidance now covers concise commit messages and a pull-request lifecycle. It also directs contributors to keep PR titles and descriptions current during development and review. ChangesContribution guidance
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes Change: Other Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The documentation has no runtime-code impact, but its summary currently promises guidance that is missing, and the required NVSkills CI validation remains outstanding before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@skills/cuopt-developer/SKILL.md`:
- Line 225: Align the cross-reference between SKILL.md and
references/contributing.md: either add the “no restated defaults” authoring rule
to the relevant guidance in contributing.md, or remove “restated defaults” from
the summary in SKILL.md, while preserving the other listed principles.
- Line 225: Update the contribution guidance around the pull request lifecycle
to require running NVSkills CI before merging changes under skills/, and require
revalidating the final commit after every later push.
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…ote draft-PR verification Addresses review feedback: adds "restated defaults" to the YAGNI list so it matches the SKILL.md pointer, cross-references the NVSkills CI requirement from the Creating section, and notes to verify --draft actually took effect (it silently didn't on this PR). Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
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| Group related changes into logical commits rather than committing all files at once. Each commit should represent one coherent change (e.g., separate the C++ change from the Python binding update from the test addition). This makes `git log` and `git bisect` useful for debugging later. | |||
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Is this guidance meaningful if all the commits in a single PR are squashed when merging?
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This is more towards developer of the PR if he or she wants to back track to figure out issues or remove changes. Just good to have.
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| Group related changes into logical commits rather than committing all files at once. Each commit should represent one coherent change (e.g., separate the C++ change from the Python binding update from the test addition). This makes `git log` and `git bisect` useful for debugging later. | ||
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| Keep the message itself high-level: a subject line plus, if needed, a short *why*. Leave out call-site tallies, verification narration ("checked run X, these are the only N errors"), and notes about fixing your own tooling failures (formatting, pre-commit) along the way — the diff already shows what changed, so restating it is noise, not information. If that reasoning is worth keeping for later, put it in a PR review comment, not the commit. |
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PR descriptions may and should have details when needed. The level of detail should match what's appropriate and necessary to review the change.
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Fair point — the prior wording read as "no detail ever," which wasn't the intent. Fixed in be08231: necessary context (design rationale, perf results) is explicitly kept, scoped via a short Why/Perf labeled-line template rather than free-form prose. The goal is still to exclude process narration (tallies, verification logs, notes about fixing your own tooling failures) — not to minimize substantive detail a reviewer actually needs.
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Who is using this workflow? Anyone on the engine team? It's assuming that the agent has direct access to the cuopt repo on github which I personally don't provide it.
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I currently use this workflow. And I provide access using gh with limited access and via my fork.
…template Addresses review feedback (mlubin): the prior wording read as discouraging any detail beyond the subject line, but necessary context (design rationale, perf results) should be kept, scaled to what reviewing the change requires. A short Why/Perf labeled-line template bounds that detail so it stays scannable instead of reverting to free-form narration. Signed-off-by: Ramakrishna Prabhu <ramakrishnap@nvidia.com>
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Adds a Pull Request Lifecycle section (Creating / Maintaining / Addressing Reviews) to the developer skill, plus commit-message style notes — keep both concise and free of process narration, since PR descriptions become the squash-merge commit on
main.