Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages - better to do something than just complain

2008-02-27 Thread Alexandre Oliva
On Feb 23, 2008, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:53:53AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 08:52:41PM +1100, Tim Josling wrote: I wrote a little proof-of-concept script to take the mailing list archives and the ChangeLog files and

Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages - better to do something than just complain

2008-02-23 Thread Tim Josling
On the principle that it's better to do something than just complain... I monitored the time I spent looking for the emails associated with a given patch and I found it takes high single digit minutes to find them. Sometimes you can't find them (which takes a lot longer). I do this a lot. I

Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages - better to do something than just complain

2008-02-23 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 20:52 +1100, Tim Josling wrote: 3. I think this may be a useful thing. If a place could be found to put the 30MB of files I would be happy to maintain them on a weekly basis or so. Alternatively I could update the ChangeLog files themselves but I have reason to suspect

Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages - better to do something than just complain

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 08:52:41PM +1100, Tim Josling wrote: I wrote a little proof-of-concept script to take the mailing list archives and the ChangeLog files and annotate the ChangeLog files with the URLs of the probable email containing the patch. This is really awesome. Thank you! I hope

Re: Rant about ChangeLog entries and commit messages - better to do something than just complain

2008-02-23 Thread Andi Kleen
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:53:53AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 08:52:41PM +1100, Tim Josling wrote: I wrote a little proof-of-concept script to take the mailing list archives and the ChangeLog files and annotate the ChangeLog files with the URLs of the probable