From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 13 13:33:44 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 3814116A4CF; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:33:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com (mailout06.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D860A43D62; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:33:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd01.aul.t-online.de by mailout06.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1AgW9t-0007oQ-07; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:33:09 +0100 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (rxEr60Zvwe9gh9pO7rRZ0pWAJyov+DBQsep+kDLrHiFMvJwcRLAown@[217.83.27.139]) by fmrl01.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 1AgW9h-1ZlzA80; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:32:57 +0100 Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (Magellan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.1]) i0DLWqJb014368; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:32:52 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i0DLXECY098308; Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:33:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 22:33:14 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Robert Watson Message-Id: <20040113223314.684c9ca4@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: References: <400428DC.2060108@theatre.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Seen: false X-ID: rxEr60Zvwe9gh9pO7rRZ0pWAJyov+DBQsep+kDLrHiFMvJwcRLAown@t-dialin.net cc: "Jonathan T. Sage" cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 21:33:44 -0000 On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 13:56:53 -0500 (EST) Robert Watson wrote: > The "summarize the commits" would also be an excellent approach, but it > will be a lot more labor intensive. 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). It may not show much of progress in public available places, and may not be attractive to developers which are back home from a holiday, but more tech-savvy users (or people which want to get more tech-savvy) which want to know what happens under the hood of FreeBSD read cvs-all (at least I did this back in the 3.x days to learn more about FreeBSD). This doesn't cover the people between the above mentioned parties (those which aren't able to understand if a commit fixes a specific bug or not), but I've seen no description of the intended audience so far... BTW.: Such information should IMHO be in-tree and with timestamps (perhaps with an entry for the introduction of a bug too), like UPDATING. Bye, Alexander. -- I will be available to get hired in April 2004. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7