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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:49:08 +0200
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Subject: Re: Changelog quality
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
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Hi Julia,

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> wrote:
>> If you want more clear markers around the script so you can skim
>> past it more efficiently when reading the commit message, then ask
>> for that.
>
> If there were markers that would cause tools to hide some information
> under a +, that would be great. ?Sometimes I have simplified a script
> beyond what would really be reusable just to not create an over-large
> changelog. ?I hope that the simplified version is at least understandable,
> so that the reader can get an idea of what considerations went into the
> change, but I recall in one case having messed up on that as well, and
> ended up with something that really gave no information whatsoever.

It seems to me that the scripts are kernel specific so why don't we
put those useful scripts _within_ the kernel source tree and introduce
a "make coccinelle-check" target?

                        Pekka
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