it's a month of anniversaries

Anton Lundin glance at acc.umu.se
Sun Aug 29 05:18:45 PDT 2021


(sorry for the top post, on my cell)

I think we have come a long way in these years, and I'd like to send a special thanks to you Dirk for keeping the project going for most of those years.

//Anton - who hopes to find some time for subsurface in the coming months.

On August 29, 2021 12:43:01 AM GMT+02:00, Dirk Hohndel via subsurface <subsurface at subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
>
>While everyone is writing about that other anniversary (whatever), let's focus on what matters.
>Ten years ago today, Linus made the first commits to the Subsurface repo.
>
>commit 857e153070aee4383a82342a41caf0c5a0f8d700 (tag: start)
>Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
>Date:   Sun Aug 28 16:18:53 2011 -0700
>
>    Start archiving the stupid XML files
>    
>    (and add a reminder of how they came to be)
>    
>    Gaah.  XML is *stupid*.  It's not easy to parse for humans or for
>    computers, and some of these XML files are just disgusting.  But maybe
>    they can be turned into something usable with libxml.
>    
>    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
>
>
>Even back then his commit messages were already awesome...
>
>Today, after 18818 commits, the file format is a bit better and the UI is maybe slightly more advanced - but not of this would exist if the kernel.org <http://kernel.org/> servers hadn't been hacked a decade ago which left Linus bored :)
>
>Congrats Linus, congrats to all of us!
>
>Happy hacking and happy diving.
>
>/D
>
>


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