Re: Linux 3-10-rc1

[Chris Jones <chrisjones@spin.net.au>]

On 05/12/2013 11:00 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So this is the biggest -rc1 in the last several years (perhaps ever)
> at least as far as counting commits go, even if not necessarily in
> actual lines (I didn't check the statistics on that).
>
> Which was unexpected, because while linux-next was fairly big, it
> wasn't exceptionally so. I'm sure Stephen Rothwell will talk about the
> statistics of commits that weren't in -next, we'll see if that was the
> reason..
>
> Anyway, despite the large number of commits, hopefully it's all
> boringly straigthforward. Sure.
>
> Now, even normally, there's no way to list all the changes, much less
> so when it's an unusually large -rc1. But I can do my "merge shortlog"
> again, and it's worth mentioning (again) that the name attributed to
> the merge is *not* necessarily the author of any of the code, it's
> literally just the person who emailed me the pull request. So you can
> see this as an approximation of "first-level maintainership" or
> something, although even that is somewhat misleading since some of
> these things are really done by groups and then there's one person who
> end up sending me the end result.
>
> But it's somewhat readable, and gives you a reasonable idea of what is
> going on. A better idea can be gotten by looking at git directly,
> especially since the merge commits often do contain a better
> description of what happened. Not that all submaintainers necessarily
> always send me that, but most of the merges actually do have
> human-readable background information.
>
> It's possible that I missed something. This really was a busier merge
> window than usual. Holler if so,
>
>                     Linus
>
> <snip>

Thanks for the summary of changes. That helps.


Regards

Chris Jones


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