From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 23 16:25:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com [24.176.204.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3935D37B410 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:25:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f8NNPdI57245; Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:25:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200109232325.f8NNPdI57245@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Brad Laue , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELNOTES suggestion In-Reply-To: <20010922193319.A7253@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010922115649.G54256-100000@TMA-1.brad-x.com> <20010922193319.A7253@freebie.xs4all.nl> Comments: In-reply-to Wilko Bulte message dated "Sat, 22 Sep 2001 19:33:20 +0200." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1212838700P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:25:39 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --==_Exmh_-1212838700P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 11:59:14AM -0400, Brad Laue wrote: > > Had an idea about RELNOTES, and being able to track the changes to it; > > is it a possibility to add date tags to each 'new entry', so that features > > can be pinned down to a specific date? > > This, sort of, assumes that the person making a change to the source code > also updates the relnotes. This is almost never the case. Of course the > relnotes maintainers could try to figure it out themselves but that is > the kind of work people generally run away from screaming. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Luckily, I can't run very far within the confines of my study. Basically, Wilko's right. Some of the release notes entries don't have well-defined "effective dates" (imp's pcic changes come to mind). Even for those that are, it's way more work that I personally am willing to put into this. Personally, I think that anybody who cares this much about the specific time a change was made should be subscribed to cvs-committers@. The CVS messages will give all the details as to when a particular change was made. In fact it's the primary source I have for most of the release notes. If you're not willing to put up with Yet Another Mailing List Subscription (TM), you can always use the cvs-committers@ archives. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1212838700P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE7rm9y2MoxcVugUsMRAq4BAKCw6qO65LzZKAI6YS1vF8Gi7sRiTQCgoIbG 5n87KXoDKGgo0iZgPJ7V7HQ= =N0p8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1212838700P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message