From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
Cc: Juha Siltala <juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Past CREDITS files
Date: 03 Oct 2001 22:22:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1002162153.1467.3.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011004034733.V7800@khan.acc.umu.se>
In-Reply-To: <20011003162217.5eda53e8.juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net> <20011004034733.V7800@khan.acc.umu.se>
On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 21:47, David Weinehall wrote:
> > I would like to examine the CREDITS files of all/most kernels released over
> > time. How could I get my hands on these? I want to study the accumulation
> > of contributors over the years. This is part of my masters thesis project.
> >
> > BTW, when was the current twofold stable/devel numbering scheme started?
>
> I don't think this will be very rewarding, as a lot of very important
> contributors aren't listed in this file (if I remember correctly,
> Alexander Viro, the guru of VFS-design, is one example, all the people
> behind my all-time favourite project, the Standford-checker, is another
> example), hence this file is pretty useless.
Or MY favorite hacker, Ingo Molnar :)
Anyhow, the two-fold stable/devel system has been in effect since at
least 1.0, when we had 1.1->1.2 (then 1.3->2.0, 2.1->2.2, etc.)
Hopefully we can continue this tradition and have 2.5 start sometime!
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-04 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-03 13:22 Past CREDITS files Juha Siltala
2001-10-03 13:38 ` Brian Gerst
2001-10-04 1:47 ` David Weinehall
2001-10-04 2:22 ` Robert Love [this message]
2001-10-04 7:59 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2001-10-04 16:04 ` Horst von Brand
2001-10-04 6:53 ` Juha Siltala
2001-10-04 9:35 ` Stanford checker [was Re: Past CREDITS files] Ville Herva
2001-10-04 19:11 ` David Weinehall
2001-10-04 7:32 ` Past CREDITS files Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-10-04 22:04 ` Alan Cox
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