Re: Changelogs on kernel.org

[Anton Altaparmakov]

At 21:06 12/05/02, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>In article <[e-mail]>,
>Ian Molton  <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> >I dont know who to write to about this, but the changelogs for
> >2.4.19-pre on kernel.org are COMPLETELY illegible.
>
>Hmm..
>
>You're definitely right about the BK version numbers, since those are
>meaningless anyway (they are only meaningful within one BK tree, and
>they change over time when you merge different trees together.
>
>The 2.4.x changelogs seem to be done with my "release" scripts, but
>additionally they don't have the same kind of detailed information that
>the 2.5.x kernels have, and yes, the result is fairly ugly.
>
>What are peoples opinion about the "full" changelog format that v2.5.x
>kernels have? Should we sort that too by author?

I like the current 2.5.x format. It gives a quick overview so I can choose 
which changesets interest me and I usually go into bk revtool afterwards 
and have a look at the actual code in the changesets of interest...

And I agree that the cut down 2.4.x changelog is not very useful... I 
always have to do a bk changes on the 2.4.x tree to get the full details.

Best regards,

Anton

>Perl is the obvious choice for doing transformations like these.  Is
>anybody willing to write a perl script that does the "sort by author"
>thing?
>
>I'll remove the date/BK ID thing, so that my unsorted changelogs would
>look like the appended thing.  But yes, sorting (and merging) by author
>would probably be a good thing. (My BK changelog scripts can also add
>markers around the actual log message, to make parsing easier).
>
>                 Linus
>
>-----
>
>Summary of changes from v2.5.13 to v2.5.14
>============================================
>
><[e-mail]>
>         A bunch of fixes.
>
><[e-mail]>
>         Pmac updates
>
><[e-mail]>
>         Some more small fixes.
>
><[e-mail]>
>         [PATCH] 2.5.13: vmalloc link failure
>
>         The following patch fixes this, and also fixes the similar problem in
>         scsi_debug.c:
>
><[e-mail]>
>         [PATCH] in_ntoa link failure
>
>         Nothing serious. Whoever it was that did that global replacemissed a
>         spot is all...
>
><[e-mail]>
>         [PATCH] change_floppy() fix
>
>         Needed both in 2.4 and 2.5
>...
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