Re: Changelog quality
From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Fri Jan 15 2010 - 04:49:16 EST
Hi Julia,
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If you want more clear markers around the script so you can skim
>> past it more efficiently when reading the commit message, then ask
>> for that.
>
> If there were markers that would cause tools to hide some information
> under a +, that would be great. Sometimes I have simplified a script
> beyond what would really be reusable just to not create an over-large
> changelog. I hope that the simplified version is at least understandable,
> so that the reader can get an idea of what considerations went into the
> change, but I recall in one case having messed up on that as well, and
> ended up with something that really gave no information whatsoever.
It seems to me that the scripts are kernel specific so why don't we
put those useful scripts _within_ the kernel source tree and introduce
a "make coccinelle-check" target?
Pekka
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