Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1 | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:42:21 -0500 |
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Diego Calleja wrote: > El Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:19:56 -0800 (PST), > Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> escribió: > > >>Anyway, it's out there now. The ShortLog is pretty readable - if you are >>into that kind of stuff - but as usual for an -rc1 release (which has all >>the frantic merging going on), it's actually too big to post on the kernel >>list due to the size limits. It's weighs in at 4000+ lines and 169kB. > > > Can I ask if it's possible to "mark" new features/important changes?
New features are easy, they usually result in changes to the config file. You can learn a lot with "diff" that way.
However, you really need to read the patches to see what they are supposed to change. That's a long and thankless job, but it's a wiki, right? So ask a few people to just look at parts of it and write comments on what they see. Few for filesystems, few for networks, stuff like that. And a few to look at "other."
If you do all the work it's not a wiki it's a blog... > > I've maintaining http://wiki.kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges > for three releases and the amount of changes is so big it takes hours > to extract the relevant changes, adding some special string in the > description field could help to automate this process and make better > changelogs. > > It's not only better for me, I also know there're more people ej: man > page maintainers looking at the full changelogs to find out if > something has changed. There're lot of nice things being merged on > each release, but there's not a way to tell people that those features > exist; even kernel developers don't really know what is going on in > other parts of the kernel. A "useful" changelog is one of the few > things the linux kernel has been missing for ages, IMO ;)
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