Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:06:23 +0100 | From | Diego Calleja <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1 |
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El Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:25:49 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> escribió:
> Is this useful to you? I dunno. I thought I'd spread the git gospel and > see if somebody gives me a "Halleluja!"
Yes, this could be useful for this task (and looking what files are created/deleted aswell), but it won't catch everything under the sun - adding support for a new device in a already existing driver, for example, or subtle changes in the semantics of a syscall, or adding yet another sockopt() option; there're many small changes that are "important".
For now, I just look at the subject line of every mail sent to the git-commits-head mailing list and decide from a quick look if the change is important or not. It's a very fast operation so looking at a couple of hundreds of emails each day doesn't take more than a couple of minutes; I waste most of the time trying to understand what the change does to write a comprehensible description and format everything to put it in the "·$%&/( crappy HTML forms that wikis use. I agree that asking developers to "mark" important changes wouldn't work well, so I guess this is the only 100% reliable method. Well, kernel releases are taking two months to be released, so i guess I should not try to do everything as soon as it is merged in the first two weeks but do the work in small chunks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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