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Subject: Re: Request for comment -- a better attribution system
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Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 11:33:17 +0200
From: Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
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> It is nice to have a single file for grep. With the proposed
> changes one would sometimes need to grep every file.

With the proposed changes it's nearly trivial to build the traditional
MAINTAINERS file with a Makefile rule, so you've lost nothing. Plus
you get the additional info (which the collecting script, two lines of
sed in my estimate, would duly include[1]) which _file_ actually is
maintained by whom.

Which makes e.g. coordinating patches and bug reporting much easier.

Olaf

[1] Although Eric would probably rather want to use a database
querying tool at this point :-)