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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:06:23 +0100
From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1
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El Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:25:49 -0800 (PST),
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> escribi?:


> Is this useful to you? I dunno.  I thought I'd spread the git gospel and 
> see if somebody gives me a "Halleluja!"

Yes, this could be useful for this task (and looking what files are
created/deleted aswell), but it won't catch everything under the sun - 
adding support for a new device in a already existing driver, for 
example, or subtle changes in the semantics of a syscall, or adding
yet another sockopt() option; there're many small changes that are
"important".

For now, I just look at the subject line of every mail sent to the 
git-commits-head mailing list and decide from a quick look if
the change is important or not. It's a very fast operation so 
looking at a couple of hundreds of emails each day doesn't take
more than a couple of minutes; I waste most of the time trying
to understand what the change does to write a comprehensible
description and format everything to put it in the "?$%&/( crappy
HTML forms that wikis use. I agree that asking developers to "mark"
important changes wouldn't work well, so I guess this is the only
100% reliable method. Well, kernel releases are taking two months to
be released, so i guess I should not try to do everything as soon
as it is merged in the first two weeks but do the work in small 
chunks.
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