From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 08:51:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2491D16A4CE; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from b.mail.sonic.net (b.mail.sonic.net [64.142.19.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B9E43D55; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:51:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.kitchenlab.org) Received: from intruder.kitchenlab.org (adsl-64-142-31-106.sonic.net [64.142.31.106]) by b.mail.sonic.net (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id i0EGpJhj003990 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:51:20 -0800 Received: from intruder.kitchenlab.org (bmah@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i0EGpJpW006730; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:51:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.kitchenlab.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.kitchenlab.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i0EGpJQX006729; Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:51:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 08:51:19 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" To: Alexander Leidinger Message-ID: <20040114165119.GA6615@intruder.kitchenlab.org> References: <400428DC.2060108@theatre.msu.edu> <20040113223314.684c9ca4@Magellan.Leidinger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040113223314.684c9ca4@Magellan.Leidinger.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ cc: "Jonathan T. Sage" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: Robert Watson Subject: Re: Status reports - why not regularly? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:51:25 -0000 --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable If memory serves me right, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:56:53 -0500 (EST) > Robert Watson wrote: >=20 > > The "summarize the commits" would also be an excellent approach, but it > > will be a lot more labor intensive. >=20 > Don't we have something like this already? We just need to provide 'some > kind of a diff' of bmah's work. At least from an end-user point of view > that's all what's needed (they want to know: X is new, Y is improved). Since this message just happened to mention me, I figure I'll reply to it: The "diff of bmah's work" doesn't work real well because I sometimes let the release notes diverge from reality, as long as they're back in sync for a release. (For the record, there *are* other people who commit to the release notes besides me, not many, but there are a few.) Anyways, for people who are really desperate to try this, there's always cvsweb. :-) BTW, contributions for the release notes (for example, things that should be documented but aren't) are always welcome. I actually really like the format of the bi-monthly development reports because they give developers a chance to talk in some depth about stuff that was *ongoing*, rather than work they had already committed. I've always been impressed by the quality and depth of the snippets that have gone into these. Bruce. --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFABXOH2MoxcVugUsMRAg0ZAJ9wzdwcXqcLRFHNSMEkPNgfApFmkQCg85Pp LbnrCC85Viu3w9dPceuNHAM= =4Hws -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --y0ulUmNC+osPPQO6--