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From: David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>
To: Juha Siltala <juha.siltala@mail.suomi.net>
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Subject: Re: Past CREDITS files
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On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 04:22:17PM +0300, Juha Siltala wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to examine the CREDITS files of all/most kernels released over
> time. How could I get my hands on these? I want to study the accumulation
> of contributors over the years. This is part of my masters thesis project.
> 
> BTW, when was the current twofold stable/devel numbering scheme started?

I don't think this will be very rewarding, as a lot of very important
contributors aren't listed in this file (if I remember correctly,
Alexander Viro, the guru of VFS-design, is one example, all the people
behind my all-time favourite project, the Standford-checker, is another
example), hence this file is pretty useless.


/David Weinehall
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