Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Sat Apr 21 2001 - 19:29:22 EDT

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    > Another is to be able to generate reports on exactly how much of the kernel
    > is in "Maintained" or "Supported" status. I think it would be worth
    > making this change just so we could know that.

    There is no correlation between claimed and actual levels of supportedness.
    There are drivers with no-one supporting them that are common and thus get
    fixed very rapidly for example.

    I actually prefer MAINTAINERS because it breaks things down by area and reflects
    the actual maintainership and areas covered. Something that per file does not

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