Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:01:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:01:13 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:55053 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:00:57 -0400 Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system To: esr@thyrsus.com Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 01:02:44 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (CML2), kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: <20010421194706.A14896@thyrsus.com> from "Eric S. Raymond" at Apr 21, 2001 07:47:06 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Alan, if MAINTAINERS scaled perfectly I wouldn't have had to spend three months > just trying to figure out who was reponsible for each of the [Cc]onfig.in > files. And even with that amount of effort mostly failing. 99.9999% of problems don't involve querying the set of maintainers of Confg.in files. The system is optimised to the general case of queries people need to make. It also happens to be accessible to people who are not kernel gurus because it uses roughly English terms for the maintainership and area. The .0001% case isnt interesting. Thats the difference between real world systems and theory. - 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/