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    SubjectRe: Changelog quality
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    Hi Julia,

    On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> wrote:
    >> If you want more clear markers around the script so you can skim
    >> past it more efficiently when reading the commit message, then ask
    >> for that.
    >
    > If there were markers that would cause tools to hide some information
    > under a +, that would be great.  Sometimes I have simplified a script
    > beyond what would really be reusable just to not create an over-large
    > changelog.  I hope that the simplified version is at least understandable,
    > so that the reader can get an idea of what considerations went into the
    > change, but I recall in one case having messed up on that as well, and
    > ended up with something that really gave no information whatsoever.

    It seems to me that the scripts are kernel specific so why don't we
    put those useful scripts _within_ the kernel source tree and introduce
    a "make coccinelle-check" target?

    Pekka
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