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From: "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>
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Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 16:23:06 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (CML2), kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
In-Reply-To: <20010421114942.A26415@thyrsus.com> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Apr 21, 2001 11:49:42 AM
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Eric S. Raymond writes:

> This is a proposal for an attribution metadata system in the Linux
> kernel sources.  The goal of the system is to make it easy for
> people reading any given piece of code to identify the responsible
> maintainer.  The motivation for this proposal is that the present
> system, a single top-level MAINTAINERS file, doesn't seem to be
> scaling well.

It is nice to have a single file for grep. With the proposed
changes one would sometimes need to grep every file.

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