Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964800AbWAQUJD (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:09:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964799AbWAQUJD (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:09:03 -0500 Received: from linux01.gwdg.de ([134.76.13.21]:19667 "EHLO linux01.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964798AbWAQUJA (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:09:00 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 21:08:54 +0100 (MET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linus Torvalds cc: Diego Calleja , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.16-rc1 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20060117183916.399b030f.diegocg@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1420 Lines: 31 >> 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!) Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/