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Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system
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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:09:05 +0100 (BST)
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In-Reply-To: <20010421114942.A26415@thyrsus.com> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Apr 21, 2001 11:49:42 AM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> 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 scales perfectly. Most of the people you annoyed are _in_ the maintainers
and credits file. The fundamental problem is identical regardless of what
you change - people forget to update things unless there is motivation [1]

Alan
[1] as proof of this claim count the number of CREDIT file updates made shortly
after the RH share offering..

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