Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:29:22 +0100 (BST)
Cc: viro@math.psu.edu (Alexander Viro),
        acahalan@cs.uml.edu (Albert D. Cahalan),
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (CML2),
        kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
In-Reply-To: <20010421164659.A4704@thyrsus.com> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Apr 21, 2001 04:46:59 PM
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> Another is to be able to generate reports on exactly how much of the kernel
> is in "Maintained" or "Supported" status.  I think it would be worth 
> making this change just so we could know that.

There is no correlation between claimed and actual levels of supportedness.
There are drivers with no-one supporting them that are common and thus get
fixed very rapidly for example.

I actually prefer MAINTAINERS because it breaks things down by area and reflects
the actual maintainership and areas covered. Something that per file does not

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