On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

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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