Re: [9fans] venti woes with brand new install

[Uriel <uriel99@gmail.com>]

I created plan9changes (and try to keep it running), and its value is
limited because only a very very small percentage of changes are
submitted though patch(1).

There have been efforts in the past for someone to manually annotate
automatically generated diffs in a 'post-facto' way, nobody lasted
long doing it, which is unsurprising given that this involved the
person writing the changelog entries having to guess the reasons for
the changes (painful and errorprone) and often having to check with
whoever made the change (tedious, slow and rather neutralizing the
whole point of having a changelog).

Why this approach was considered a good idea rather than having the author
of the change write a changelog entry at the same time the change is
made/committed-to-sources is something I have never understood.

uriel

On 9/10/07, SHRIZZA <shrizza@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm wondering how I will know when I can get back to using the
> > sources venti, a changelog of some-sort would be welcomed to see
> > when a specific change has been made. For example this time it
> > would be nice to know when I need not be worried about being able
> > to boot with venti if I recompile the kernel.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/plan9changes
>