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Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system
To: matthew@hairy.beasts.org (Matthew Kirkwood)
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 15:29:17 +0100 (BST)
Cc: rmk@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King), esr@thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond),
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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> Eric wants an easy way to find the owner of a CONFIG_ entry.
> True, the consensus seems to be that this isn't a particularly
> useful thing to do, but if it must be done, this seems like an
> eminently sane way to do it.

So we need a system to handle the thousand odd entries, a person to maintain
each item and correct all the errors, processes for handling shared CONFIG_
name space, and procedures for handling registering new entries.

It says one thing 'WOMBAT'

Alan

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