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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:51:42 +0100
From: Roger Gammans <roger@computer-surgery.co.uk>
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Cc: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104221348370.1685-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva>; from Rik van Riel on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 01:49:16PM -0300
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On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 01:49:16PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>:
> > > Then you're going to conjure up maintainers for the code which is currently 
> > > orphaned?
> > 
> > That's a *really* hard problem.  I don't know how to solve that one myself.
> 
> You could volunteer to maintain all the code you reveal
> to be orphaned ...
> 
> *runs like hell*

I'm not sure Eric would have to.

It's entirley possible the problem will solve itself 
when/if people like myself who hang around the edge of 
kernel dev , find their favourite piece of kernel has
no maintainer - and volunteer. 

So Eric solution may get new maintainers to appear for orphaned code
as 'if by magic'

Alternatively not, of course.

TTFN
-- 
Roger
     Think of the mess on the carpet. Sensible people do all their
     demon-summoning in the garage, which you can just hose down afterwards.
        --     damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk
	
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