[Python-Dev] 2.5.3: assessing commits

[A.M. Kuchling]

I've begun the task of assessing the 2.6 commits, but the job is
unexpectedly large.

What I did:

* Took the output of 'svn log -r60999:66717'.  (2.5.2 was branched
  from rev. 60999, so I'm ignoring commits to the trunk before 2.5.2 was 
  branch, which may miss some things.)

* Wrote a little script to explode the log into a separate file for each 
  commit.  This resulted in about 2200 files.

* Did a long series of 'grep' and 'rm' commands to remove irrelevant files.
  For example, if the commit touches abc.py, bytesobject.c, bytearrayobject.c,
  etc. it was removed.

* Wrote a little script to find commits that only touch the docs, and moved them
  aside.

At this point I still have 1191 files left.  Many of these commits are
still irrelevant, but this is a lot for me to look through.  A tarball
with the remaining commits is at

      http://www.amk.ca/files/python/2.6-changes.tgz

Can we parallelize the job?  One person could take commits starting
with '01', another with '02', etc.  Or each person could assess the
commits they made.

--amk