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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:44:12 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Chris Ricker <kaboom@gatech.edu>
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Chris Ricker wrote:
>
> That's fine, but there's a major problem with your scheme.  What happens
> with all the stuff for which no one is listed in MAINTAINERS?

I have to admit that personally I've always found the MAINTAINERS file
more of an irritation than anything else. The first place _I_ tend to look
personally is actually in the source files themselves (although that may
be a false statistic - the kind of people I tend to have to look up aren't
the main maintainers at all, but more single driver people etc).

It might not be a bad idea to just make that "mention maintainer at the
top of the file" the common case.

		Linus

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