Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 May 2002 11:31:42 +0200 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Subject | Re: Changelogs on kernel.org |
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On Sun, 12 May 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> As an example, if the long version looks like this: > > <jsimmons@heisenberg.transvirtual.com> > A bunch of fixes. > > <jsimmons@heisenberg.transvirtual.com> > Pmac updates > ... > <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> > [PATCH] 2.5.13: vmalloc link failure > > The following patch fixes this, and also fixes the similar problem in > scsi_debug.c: > ... > > The short version could look like > > jsimmons@heisenberg.transvirtual.com: > A bunch of fixes. > Pmac updates ... > rmk@arm.linux.org.uk: > [PATCH] 2.5.13: vmalloc link failure > > ... > > ie only take the first line, and merge entries with the same author. > > Perl people, stand up.
I sent a first version of a Perl program to Linus, a copy of the program is available at http://mandree.home.pages.de/linux/kernel/lk-changelog.pl (Yes I know the first $Log:$ entry is missing.)
It does the above, plus it has a built-in table to write a name along with the e-mail address, so it writes something like this:
James Simmons <jsimmons@heisenberg.transvirtual.com>: A bunch of fixes. Pmac updates Some more small fixes.
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>: [PATCH] 2.5.13: vmalloc link failure
Of course, if BK ChangeLogs started with a 60 character summary line as has been suggested, that'd be very useful. Something for the BK-with-linux-kernel-HOWTO perhaps?
I can imagine letting the script look up the addresses by means of Roland Rosenfeld's Little Brother's Data Base at a later time. (http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/)
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