Request to Dom - more info on firmware commits

[linuxstb]

Hi Dom,

Firstly, thanks for all the work you're doing for us Pi hackers.

I've noticed that most (if not all) of your firmware commits seem to be in response to bug reports/feature requests made in various places around the internet - these forums, the github issue tracker, probably elsewhere (xbmc forums?), where there is often more discussion or info from yourself about what exactly a particular commit is doing/fixing.

Could I ask that when this is the case, you put a link to these discussions in your commit messages, to make it easier to know what's going on with the firmware? These commits all make a lot more sense when the context is known.

e.g. your last commit about dispmanx_snapshot() was described in more detail in this post and the thread gives the background to why it was done:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... 38#p380938

but most people following the commit messages on github wouldn't have a clue about that.

Thanks.

[liz]

Can you PM him just in case he doesn't see this post?

[dom]

I'll try to add links to discussions in future commits.

[linuxstb]

Thanks a lot.