Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system

Mr. James W. Laferriere (babydr@baby-dragons.com)
Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:59:46 -0700 (PDT)


Hello Eric ,

On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Eric S. Raymond writes:
> > This is a proposal for an attribution metadata system in the Linux
> > kernel sources. The goal of the system is to make it easy for
> > people reading any given piece of code to identify the responsible
> > maintainer. The motivation for this proposal is that the present
> > system, a single top-level MAINTAINERS file, doesn't seem to be
> > scaling well.
> It is nice to have a single file for grep. With the proposed
> changes one would sometimes need to grep every file.

Find . -name "*Some-Name*" -type f -print | xargs grep 'Some-Info'
Hate answering with just one line of credible info , But .
Hth , JimL
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