From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964845AbWAQVEe (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:04:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932430AbWAQVEe (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:04:34 -0500 Received: from uproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.92.207]:11399 "EHLO uproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932408AbWAQVEd convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 16:04:33 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=AefwtmyWxXwgfOBZu5X4+tZpZiTYfMBoxexpJcuxsn62oQMAKpViYAPFnBnvatyQSc1XIg5ZyVD5wf12GnIlD/cuWaOuwXKJUE4DIqlG0Var2XXiJJDBZHbkc3qVxCV1aGqq4rt+p4nUD0IYfhow5S9by3/C2ZaDQRE1bIsSru8= Message-ID: <69304d110601171304h34c16fbfuf59df390c0fc58fd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 22:04:31 +0100 From: Antonio Vargas To: Jan Engelhardt , Linus Torvalds , Diego Calleja , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060117183916.399b030f.diegocg@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 1/17/06, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> 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!) > Maybe the way to make modern-style linux development (post 2.5) more manageable for mere mortals is to stop integrating things when the shortlog is so big that it can't be posted to the mailing list? Less changes, easier to see if you are able to help testing ;) -- Greetz, Antonio Vargas aka winden of network http://wind.codepixel.com/ windNOenSPAMntw@gmail.com thesameasabove@amigascne.org Every day, every year you have to work you have to study you have to scene.