Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:08:54 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1 |
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>> Can I ask if it's possible to "mark" new features/important changes? > >Well, I'd rather not do it in the source control management itself, simply >because people are notoriously bad at deciding what is "important". > >It goes something like this: "By definition, anything _you_ work for is >crap and unimportant, while _my_ work is the most important thing ever, >even if it happens to be just fixing typos". > Important is what is important for all members of an "independent" group. We already have a small example: kerneltraffic. Though it's just one person and therefore possibly biased, the magazine picks out what's [deemed] important. Typos don't really advance to important IMO, even if they fix oopses (e.g. a missing ! somewhere). More important are world news, news that Joe Default User thinks is good - "full double preemption", "O(0.5) scheduler" and other illusory things. Just think of if you had to commercially sell a Linux kernel CD what features you would print on the cover. As for me, it was important to see SCHED_BATCH going in, as I started to look through the big changelog :) Well, my 2 euros. (Yeah, 200 cents!)
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