From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265032AbUEYSWL (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 14:22:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265028AbUEYSTy (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 14:19:54 -0400 Received: from mail.wnyip.net ([209.2.65.194]:50190 "EHLO mail.wnyip.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265041AbUEYSTZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 May 2004 14:19:25 -0400 Message-ID: <40B3912D.7060606@wnyip.net> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:32:13 -0400 From: "pvant67@wnyip.net" Reply-To: pvant67@wnyip.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC] Kernel origins and maintainers References: <40B384DE.9060504@wnyip.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- "Truly, if Te is strong in one, all one needs to do is sit on one's ass, and the corpse of one's enemy shall be carried past shortly." -- spotted somewhere on Usenet