Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering

John Cherry
2005-03-03T22:06:23Z

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 16:52 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.

This is not too difficult to do. I'll tweak the format a bit and see if
it is more consumable.

John

>
> Dave