Re: Who wrote 2.6.28

[Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>]

Theodore Tso said the following on 2009-1-13 1:49:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:03:50AM +0800, Wang Chen wrote:
>> Ted, when you said this, do you mean the page "all_whole.html"?
>> If so, my explanation is that this page lists all the people who
>> ever worked for TLF since 2.6.13 age.
>> Is there any mistake?
> 
> I can't remember for certain which one I was looking at; it might have
> been 2._6_26_whole_line.html or 2.6.27's whole_line.html:
> 
> # No.1 Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> 42263
> # No.2 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1165
> # No.3 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> 42
> # No.4 Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> 35
> # No.5 Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> 14
> 
> Of the above technically only Linus Torvalds is an _employee_ of the
> Linux Foundation.  I'm technically an employee of IBM, but I'm on loan
> to the Linux Foundation.
> 

Thanks Ted.
I will update my database.

> One of the things which get confusing is that people's employers
> change over time, so if you are mapping engineers to company, it's not
> enough to use just an e-mail address and map it to a company name;
> ideally you need to take an e-mail address and/or name and date range,
> and then map that to a compay name.  For example Alan Cox was
> previously at Red Hat, but he will be changing employers to Intel as
> of some date in January, 2009, but he will be keeping his e-mail
> address.
> 

Yes. This is in my todo list.