>can be good self-promotion. You may not realize

When I said nebulous and hard to pin down this is kinda what I meant.

Do you routinely monitor commit messages on adjacent teams' repos? I dont. I dont know anybody who does. When I want to know something about their code I ping them a slack message and vice versa.

I dont think the CTO is reading commit messages either, theyre too busy.

I think it's good to ask when and why people actually do read commit messages to make sure what you write aligns with what they want to see.