Re: [RFC] Kernel origins and maintainers

["pvant67@wnyip.net" <pvant67@wnyip.net>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> I don't think I've seen it before.
> 
> For the last two years, you can find a lot of email addresses in BK, and 
> you can clean them up with the name translations found in the "shortlog" 
> script (part of "BK-tools" at http://bktools.bkbits.net/bktools).

> Well, right now you won't get any real information from the sign-off
> lines, since only a few people have started using it (7 people at the time
> of this writing ;), so you're better off just doing statistics on the 
> output of "bk changes -a" or something.
> 
> 		Linus
> 

Thanks for the tip! I'm not familiar with BK at all, so I'll have to try 
it. So far, I've been collecting all the diffs to the CREDITS file back 
to version 1.0. Of course, I've some time on my hands, and I enjoy every 
  minute of insanity ;)

The fun part will come when it is time to cross-reference and index it 
all. I'm not sure I'm up to that yet, but we'll see what happens. Thanks 
again!

Peter



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