Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Apr 21 2001 - 19:09:05 EDT

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    > 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 scales perfectly. Most of the people you annoyed are _in_ the maintainers
    and credits file. The fundamental problem is identical regardless of what
    you change - people forget to update things unless there is motivation [1]

    Alan
    [1] as proof of this claim count the number of CREDIT file updates made shortly
    after the RH share offering..

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