Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight

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To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...>

Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...>, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...>, Scott Preece <sepreece@...>, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...>, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...>

Subject: Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight

Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2007 - 2:27 am

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 08:11:53AM +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
quoted text> Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > But for those that run test suites, they should be smart enough to put
> > in more documentation into the change log to state how it was tested.
> 
> I disagree.  The SCM changelog should contain _what_ a patch does and if
> necessary _why_ it does so.
The _why_ part is more important than _what_. The diff should hopefully
explain the _what_ part.

	Sam
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RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Jonathan Corbet, (Mon Oct 8, 1:24 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Mark Gross, (Mon Oct 8, 2:40 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Stefan Richter, (Mon Oct 8, 2:53 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Al Viro, (Mon Oct 8, 3:05 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight , Jonathan Corbet, (Mon Oct 8, 3:08 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Sam Ravnborg, (Mon Oct 8, 1:37 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight , Jonathan Corbet, (Mon Oct 8, 6:43 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Scott Preece, (Wed Oct 10, 9:40 am)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Stefan Richter, (Mon Oct 8, 7:42 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, J. Bruce Fields, (Mon Oct 8, 7:30 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Alan Cox, (Tue Oct 9, 6:28 am)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Randy Dunlap, (Mon Oct 8, 7:06 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Stephen Hemminger, (Mon Oct 8, 11:34 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Oct 8, 1:45 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, H. Peter Anvin, (Mon Oct 8, 4:33 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Theodore Tso, (Mon Oct 8, 5:38 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Oleg Verych, (Mon Oct 8, 7:20 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Rafael J. Wysocki, (Mon Oct 8, 6:18 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Scott Preece, (Mon Oct 8, 3:35 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Roland Dreier, (Mon Oct 8, 2:40 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Stefan Richter, (Mon Oct 8, 2:26 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon Oct 8, 2:01 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Randy Dunlap, (Mon Oct 8, 2:06 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Stefan Richter, (Mon Oct 8, 2:34 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, J. Bruce Fields, (Mon Oct 8, 2:52 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Scott Preece, (Mon Oct 8, 3:26 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Rafael J. Wysocki, (Mon Oct 8, 4:16 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Steven Rostedt, (Mon Oct 8, 10:07 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Stefan Richter, (Tue Oct 9, 2:11 am)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Sam Ravnborg, (Tue Oct 9, 2:27 am)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Stefan Richter, (Tue Oct 9, 2:39 am)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Stefan Richter, (Tue Oct 9, 2:47 am)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Stefan Richter, (Mon Oct 8, 3:04 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, (Mon Oct 8, 2:16 pm)

Re: RFC: reviewer's statement of oversight, Pekka Enberg, (Mon Oct 8, 1:31 pm)


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