Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

Dave Jones
2005-03-03T21:58:41Z

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 01:49:50PM -0800, John Cherry wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 00:21 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> <snip>
> > compile time regressions we should be able to nail down fairly easily.
> > (someone from OSDL is already doing compile stats and such on each release
> > [too bad they're mostly incomprehensible to the casual viewer])
>
> Dave, I'm the "someone from OSDL". I agree that the compile stats and
> error/warning regresssions can be a little challenging to grock for the
> casual observer. Is it content or formatting that would help the casual
> viewer?

I don't have one handy to quote from, but personally I find there
are two problems with what's currently presented.

1 - information overload. It's just a screenfull of numbers.
2 - the column headings were non-obvious iirc. Or maybe I'm just dumb
and didn't look at them long enough.

So it could just need some formatting tweaks to make it more
palatable.

Dave