Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

Albert D. Cahalan
2001-04-21T20:23:35Z

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.