Re: What's cooking in git.git (Dec 2021, #01; Fri, 3)

From: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 7, 2021, 16:21 UTC
Message-ID: <ef487c98-820c-010e-e3c9-39d60633b30f@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqilw1b4ry.fsf@gitster.g>

On 12/6/2021 8:08 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
>> FYI, here is how the topics listed in the report are categorized
>> (output from the 'cook -w' script I mentioned in the main report).
> 
> The output from the same command to summarize the current draft of
> the next issue of the "What's cooking" report looks like this.  As
> promised, unless a problem is found in it, a topic in 'next' will
> graduate almost automatically to 'master' after spending a week
> there, so by the end of this week we'll have ~40 topics graduating
> to 'master'.

Wow!!!

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> Please pay extra attention to the list of topics slated for 'next'
> (with and without the '?') to stop topics that are not quite ready
> to go in to 'next' by mistake.
> 
> Thanks.

I found this output to be a particularly interesting way to get an overview of everything going on. It almost looks appropriate for being a "table of contents" for the main report. Have you thought about adding it near the top of that report?

Thanks, -Stolee