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But now that I have you in my custody, I may do with you what I please.

27 December 2009 21:50

I sketched out a quick prototype of a Kernel ChangeLog viewer:

Choose the kernel on the left, select the changelog summary at the top and the text is shown in the bottom pane.

I spend a fair amount of time reading kernel changelogs and something like this (but with nice filtering and searching) would be useful. The only major problems I see are :

  • "Recent" changelog entries have one format, older ones have another.
  • You need to download a lot of changelog files locally for it to be useful.

Anyway if you follow kernels you might like the idea, if not the implementation. I look forward to seeing your improved version. (Doesn't free software rock? ;)

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icon Anonymous at 07:59 on 27 December 2009

I'll take gitk over that, thanks. :)

It has great filtering, searching, diffs, and various other niceties for following development.

icon Steve Kemp at 08:00 on 27 December 2009

Heh. Good call.

I'd never even considered using that, mostly because I want to use released kernels rather than anything more "in progress".

icon Kai Hendry at 11:34 on 29 December 2009

Why not make it a Web application / service?

icon Steve Kemp at 11:48 on 29 December 2009

Kai that didn't even occur to me, but is a great idea!