On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> 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.
That's what I used when available, especially to properly time stamp
those commits. Using the latest date on files included in the archive
isn't always reliable.
OK so actually what I have is from v0.01 up to v1.0 creating 93 commits.
What is missing is:
- v0.02 sources
- v0.10 announcement
- v0.96 sources
- v0.99.12 announcement
- sources for v0.99.13{abcdefghij} (got k, don't know where the serie
ends) as well as announcements for all of them
- all announcements for v0.99.14{a-z} except for pl14r
- announcements for pl15c to pl15j, 1.0-pre1, and ALPHA-1.0.
Otherwise the archive appears fairly complete with almost 3 years of
Linux development history captured in a 3MB pack file.
Nicolas
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