Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:57:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:57:53 -0400 Received: from [203.143.19.4] ([203.143.19.4]:57353 "EHLO kitul.learn.ac.lk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:57:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:28:01 +0600 (LKT) From: Anuradha Ratnaweera To: "Albert D. Cahalan" cc: esr@thyrsus.com, CML2 , kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system In-Reply-To: <200104212023.f3LKN7P188973@saturn.cs.uml.edu> 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 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. What about grep `find . -name "MAINTAINERS"` Anuradha - 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/