Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

From: Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com)
Date: Sat Apr 21 2001 - 17:59:46 EDT

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            Hello Eric ,

    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.

            Find . -name "*Some-Name*" -type f -print | xargs grep 'Some-Info'
            Hate answering with just one line of credible info , But .
                    Hth , JimL
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