Nicholas D Steeves posted on Fri, 22 Apr 2016 20:41:36 -0400 as excerpted: > I'm just wondering where the primary location of the btrfs-progs > changelog is located, because I'd like to include upstream changes in > the Debian package. Is it really the wiki? If so, it would seem my > options are copying+pasting with every release, or writing a script to > download the page, convert it to text, and then do something like cut > everything before By version (btrfs-progs) and everything after By > version (linux kernel). As with most modern projects, particularly those that are kernel related, I believe the _primary_ and authoritative changelog is git log. =:^) Particularly with the kernel, Linus's merge-commits for the various subsystems (btrfs in this case) tend to give a rather good if somewhat technical overview of what's going on with the whole merge, so you don't need to drill down to individual commits unless it's something you're /that/ interested in. Beyond git log and other than the wiki, for userspace see the "Btrfs progs release" (that should be a reasonable subject search on any of the list archives, or use pre-release if you want them) messages authored by David Sterba here on this list. They normally contain a reasonable "user- level" summary, similar to what eventually gets put on the wiki (indeed, I'd guess the wiki copies from the release announcements). For example: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/54781 For the kernel, search on "[GIT PULL] Btrfs" messages from Chris Mason. For example: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/219422 As with many subsystems Linus often uses these pretty directly in his merge commit comments, so it's pretty close to the same thing you'd get by reading the git log merge commits. But beyond that, I think it's the wiki, which I believe can also have slightly more mainstreamed/sysadmin-level-change descriptions, particularly for the kernel, as I believe they're edited a bit differently than the git pull notices, where Linus and git log readers are the primary audience. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
