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Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering
From: John Cherry <cherry@osdl.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:02:52 -0800
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On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 16:52 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:49:50PM -0800, John Cherry wrote:
>  > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 00:21 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > <snip>
>  > > compile time regressions we should be able to nail down fairly easily.
>  > > (someone from OSDL is already doing compile stats and such on each release
>  > >  [too bad they're mostly incomprehensible to the casual viewer])
>  > 
>  > Dave, I'm the "someone from OSDL".  I agree that the compile stats and
>  > error/warning regresssions can be a little challenging to grock for the
>  > casual observer.  Is it content or formatting that would help the casual
>  > viewer?
> 
> I don't have one handy to quote from, but personally I find there
> are two problems with what's currently presented.
> 
> 1 - information overload. It's just a screenfull of numbers.
> 2 - the column headings were non-obvious iirc. Or maybe I'm just dumb
>     and didn't look at them long enough.
> 
> So it could just need some formatting tweaks to make it more
> palatable.

This is not too difficult to do.  I'll tweak the format a bit and see if
it is more consumable.

John

> 
> 		Dave

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