Return-Path: <linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org>
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand
	id <S132471AbRDUQUk>; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:20:40 -0400
Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org
	id <S132740AbRDUQUa>; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:20:30 -0400
Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:1545 "HELO Cantor.suse.de")
	by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id <S132471AbRDUQUX>;
	Sat, 21 Apr 2001 12:20:23 -0400
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 18:18:36 +0200
From: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
To: CML2 <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system
Message-ID: <20010421181836.B22420@pingi.muc.suse.de>
Mail-Followup-To: CML2 <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010421114942.A26415@thyrsus.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i
In-Reply-To: <20010421114942.A26415@thyrsus.com>; from esr@thyrsus.com on Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:49:42AM -0400
Organization: SuSE Muenchen GmbH
X-Operating-System: Linux 2.2.18-SMP i586
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 11:49:42AM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
...
> If this proposal meets with approval, I am willing to do three things:

Sounds good for me.

> 
> 1. Generate a patch to distribute the information presently in the
>    MAINTAINERS file into map blocks and %Map files.
> 
> 2. Write a tool for querying the map database.

Since C: is here, it  would be superb if the make ...config tools have
button to show this information, but since you maintain this stuff I'm
sure that you allready think about this :-)

> 
> 3. (Background task, with which I would expect help) Chase down more
>    map entries and verify information in old entries.
> 
> Thanks to Andreas Dilger for suggesting the basic idea.
> 
> Comments are solicited.
> -- 
> 		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
> 
> The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme
> Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the
> fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
> 	-- Thomas Jefferson, 1823
> -
> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
> Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

-- 
Karsten Keil
SuSE Labs
ISDN development
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/