From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: adi@hexapodia.org, julia@diku.dk, nm127@freemail.hu,
david.vrabel@csr.com, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cocci@diku.dk
Subject: Re: Changelog quality
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:50:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B502C6B.7000802@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100115.002424.100105244.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
> And likewise here, I want to see what the hell found the bug by
> reading the changelog message.
Coccinelle found it. In contrast to parsers like sparse, it had to be
programmed to do so. If you want to repeat that process, you have to
get coccinelle and the script. Both can be found quickly without having
them both in the SCM.
> I want more information in changelog messages, not less. A commit
> log message is never too long and never gives too much information
> about the change, ever...
If the changelog carries a lot of unimportant or even unrelated
information, then only a careful structure of the text can prevent that
the important information is buried in noise, and thus lost. (Julia's
logs are structured respectively, so this is OK.)
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-15 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-12 7:49 [PATCH] uwb: make USB device id constant Németh Márton
2010-01-12 16:10 ` David Vrabel
2010-01-12 16:57 ` Németh Márton
2010-01-13 14:59 ` Changelog quality (was Re: [PATCH] uwb: make USB device id constant) Stefan Richter
2010-01-13 15:38 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-13 17:06 ` Changelog quality Stefan Richter
2010-01-13 17:29 ` Alan Stern
2010-01-13 17:44 ` Greg KH
2010-01-13 18:04 ` Alan Stern
2010-01-13 19:52 ` Greg KH
2010-01-14 5:24 ` Németh Márton
2010-01-14 6:05 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-14 8:07 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-14 8:26 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-01-13 19:19 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-01-13 17:49 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2010-01-13 18:22 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-15 1:03 ` Changelog quality (was Re: [PATCH] uwb: make USB device id constant) Andy Isaacson
2010-01-15 8:13 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-15 8:24 ` Changelog quality David Miller
2010-01-15 8:50 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2010-01-15 8:54 ` David Miller
2010-01-15 9:17 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-15 9:22 ` David Miller
2010-01-15 9:43 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-15 9:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-15 10:05 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-15 11:08 ` Mark Brown
2010-01-15 12:06 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-15 12:44 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-15 13:10 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-15 12:45 ` Stefan Richter
2010-01-15 12:52 ` Pekka Enberg
2010-01-15 13:39 ` Mark Brown
2010-01-15 16:49 ` SmPL scripts into build environment? (was: Changelog quality) Németh Márton
2010-01-18 10:58 ` SmPL scripts into build environment? Michal Marek
2010-01-18 11:22 ` Julia Lawall
2010-01-15 13:28 ` Changelog quality Stefan Richter
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