Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932612Ab1FBADp (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2011 20:03:45 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f179.google.com ([209.85.212.179]:39308 "EHLO mail-px0-f179.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932416Ab1FBADn (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jun 2011 20:03:43 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=XGXq+wp0pt5ahJJvJcvuNpt8NV+lNUnL3XCsT3d0Lb3Fx/vB9KU7rh3cAaz1B30aRC uySm+s5qxmyns8k+hEnh4I9oG5EIzfAb4+Hx8QygXGSC08eagsuPr+8imQJVExyoH4Ub mKPLHQK9hTWzaZM+dMedB5bWez8mEVwOQKykA= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1306950434.3627.23.camel@ayu> References: <20110531201348.GA8723@1wt.eu> <1306950434.3627.23.camel@ayu> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 20:03:41 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Linux 3.0 change listings - Wonderful World of Linux 3.0 From: Joe Pranevich To: Calvin Walton Cc: Willy Tarreau , Mike Frysinger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2628 Lines: 58 Hello, Thank you for the feedback. While I already have a section about what v3 means right at the top, I will be reworking the exuberance out of the finished text, cutting the use of the word "new", and making it more clear that this is a "v2.6 retrospective", to use your term. I will also place notices to that effect on each page of the web version of the doc. I think I have done a reasonable job in summarizing where Linux has moved to since the last "dot-zero" release, which was my hope and intent, and now I just want to move the text to make that more clear. This has been a good experience. I regularly follow kernel development and read change logs, but there were still numerous things that I learned about Linux 2.6.x that I didn't know. The wide angle lens helped me and I hope it can help others. (My inclination, if I do this again, would be to do a yearly writeup (WWOL 2012), though perhaps we'll have yearly point releases anyway.) I will finish these changes by Sunday. The doc may be too long for another kernel post, but I appreciate the corrections and feedback so please keep them coming. Joe On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Calvin Walton wrote: > On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 22:13 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 01:22:49AM -0400, Joe Pranevich wrote: >> > Mike, >> > >> > Thank you. I appreciate the comments and the corrections. It was a >> > marathon weekend and yes, I missed some obvious typos. Thanks. >> > >> I'd say that in general, almost all of the features you're announcing as >> "new" will make unaware people think that older versions did not have >> those features, which is quite misleading. Linus took great care to say >> that 3.0-rc1 had very few changes, it can be a bit confusing to see a >> post pretending it to be a revolutionary new kernel. >> >> Probably that you should more clearly say that all those features were >> progressively added in all 2.6 releases, otherwise I'm already expecting >> to see a lot of idiocies posted in journals. > > Perhaps a simple change of the title and introduction would handle > clearing this up. Instead of presenting it as a "What's new in Linux > 3.0" article (which it is not, or it would be a lot shorter!), why not > call it what it actually is: "A Retrospective of the Linux 2.6 era"? > > -- > Calvin Walton > > -- 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/