Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 16:25:39 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Brad Laue <brad@brad-x.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELNOTES suggestion Message-ID: <200109232325.f8NNPdI57245@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> In-Reply-To: <20010922193319.A7253@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010922115649.G54256-100000@TMA-1.brad-x.com> <20010922193319.A7253@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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--==_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
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