[RFC] Kernel origins and maintainers

[RFC] Kernel origins and maintainers

[pvant67]

I'm busy putting together a list of all the contributors and maintainers 
  that I can find, using the CREDITS and MAINTAINERS files. I have not 
seen this done in one place before; is it redundant effort? The people 
at Grokline (affiliated with Groklaw) are interested in this project, in 
an effort to trace and verify the origin of everything that ever happened.

Please see here: http://www.grokline.net

and here: http://www.groklaw.net

How does this overlap with the new Developer's Certificate of Origin? I 
have the distinct impression that these projects should be working 
closer together.

Please cc me off the list in addition to on-the-list, just in case; my 
spam filter occasionally screws up. Thanks to all in advance for any 
input or advice.

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

Re: [RFC] Kernel origins and maintainers

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 25 May 2004, pvant67@wnyip.net wrote:
>
> I'm busy putting together a list of all the contributors and maintainers 
> that I can find, using the CREDITS and MAINTAINERS files. I have not 
> seen this done in one place before; is it redundant effort?

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).

> How does this overlap with the new Developer's Certificate of Origin? I 
> have the distinct impression that these projects should be working 
> closer together.

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

Re: [RFC] Kernel origins and maintainers

[pvant67]

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

Re: [RFC] Kernel origins and maintainers

[Valdis.Kletnieks]

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On Tue, 25 May 2004 13:39:42 EDT, "pvant67@wnyip.net" <pvant67@wnyip.net>  said:
> I'm busy putting together a list of all the contributors and maintainers 
>   that I can find, using the CREDITS and MAINTAINERS files.

That might get you all the major maintainers.  You'll probably want to also
look at the release Changelogs, and possibly the BitKeeper logs as well - I
think the Changelogs show part of the #if/#ifdef cleanup I did as coming from
me, and part as coming from somebody else (Dave Jones?), since he forwarded
part to Linus. I never did bother checking what the BitKeeper notations were...


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Re: [RFC] Kernel origins and maintainers

[pvant67]

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> 
> That might get you all the major maintainers.  You'll probably want to also
> look at the release Changelogs, and possibly the BitKeeper logs as well - I
> think the Changelogs show part of the #if/#ifdef cleanup I did as coming from
> me, and part as coming from somebody else (Dave Jones?), since he forwarded
> part to Linus. I never did bother checking what the BitKeeper notations were...
> 

Thanks for the idea - I had overlooked that. ASAP I will try it.

-- 
"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