On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> I started this once.
>
> I have (sort of) a GIT tree with all Linux revisions that I could find
> from v0.01 up to v1.0.9. But the most interesting information and also
> what is the most time consuming is the retrieval of announcement
> messages for those releases in old mailing list or newsgroup archives to
> serve as commit log data. It seems to be even arder to find for post
> v1.0 releases.
Yes, I agree. Google finds some of them, but (a) I was never very good
about announcements anyway and (b) there's nothing really good to search
for, so it's very hit-and-miss.
Some of the really early release notes are easy to find, just because I
made them available with the sources, but mostly I'd just have posten to
the newsgroup/mailing lists.
If somebody creates a reasonably good tree (ie all the trees, easily
diffable, tied together with at least *some* commit history and the most
easily found release notes), I'm willing to try to spend some time just
writing down recollections from looking at the diffs. Not very reliable,
but better than nothing. This is the kind of thing that the "notes" thing
could be useful for, since there are others around who might also be
interested in adding their commentary.
Linus
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