| Subject | Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system | Date | Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:09:05 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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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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