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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: babydr@baby-dragons.com (Mr. James W. Laferriere)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:33:53 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0104211456540.4237-100000@filesrv1.baby-dragons.com> from "Mr. James W. Laferriere" at Apr 21, 2001 02:59:46 PM
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James  W. Laferriere writes:
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
>> 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.
>
> 	Find . -name "*Some-Name*" -type f -print | xargs grep 'Some-Info'
> 	Hate answering with just one line of credible info , But .

The above would grep every file. It takes 1 minute and 9.5 seconds.
So the distributed maintainer information does not scale well at all.

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