Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 08:34:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 08:34:03 -0400 Received: from leibniz.math.psu.edu ([146.186.130.2]:48059 "EHLO math.psu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 08:33:50 -0400 Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 08:33:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Alexander Viro To: Francois Romieu cc: "Eric S. Raymond" , CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system In-Reply-To: <20010422133947.A21908@se1.cogenit.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Francois Romieu wrote: > Look again at l-k archive: people do global changes (see VFS, network api, > etc...). And then we have the situation when about a half of filesystems has no single maintainer - they are taken care of when needed, but that's it. We also have _no_ official maintainer of VFS, and that's the way it's gonna be. Eric, it would save everyone a lot of time if you actually cared to pull your head out of your... theoretical constructions and spent some efforts figuring out how the things really work. Building infrastructure before you get familiar with the problem domain is generally considered harmful. That's precisely what you are doing. Trust me, it doesn't earn you any respect from people familiar with the problem. - 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/