Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

Alan Cox
2001-04-22T00:01:23Z

> Alan, if MAINTAINERS scaled perfectly I wouldn't have had to spend three months
> just trying to figure out who was reponsible for each of the [Cc]onfig.in
> files. And even with that amount of effort mostly failing.

99.9999% of problems don't involve querying the set of maintainers of
Confg.in files. The system is optimised to the general case of queries people
need to make. It also happens to be accessible to people who are not
kernel gurus because it uses roughly English terms for the maintainership
and area.

The .0001% case isnt interesting. Thats the difference between real world
systems and theory.